The filmmaker published a letter of apology on social networks this Friday after having made awkward words regarding women during an interview on CNews.
Claude Lelouch made amends. This Friday, the 87-year-old French director published a letter on his November 13, 2024.
“On a television set, I explained for half an hour that women had made me grow, that I owed them everything, that love came through admiration. All my life I have said that women are successful men. But only comments taken out of context were repeated everywhere and that deeply saddens me. I have always respected women, those to whom I have dedicated 51 films and even more in my last one. My inappropriate and clumsy comments hurt, I ask you for forgiveness”wrote Claude Lelouch.
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During the interview, Pascal Praud had, in particular, made him react on a point in his personal life. “When, in a romantic relationship, to sometimes justify infidelity, you say, “I am a reporter of life and I went elsewhere to see what is happening.” Saying that to your wife in the evening is not easy…”had launched the host. “You know, married women should thank mistresses because there are impressive returns. Very often, when we go somewhere else, we are happy to come home”Claude Lelouch replied with a smile.
A sentence which caused embarrassment on the set. Some columnists, including Sarah Saldmann, then asked him to explain these comments. “We are constantly improving the world (…). But it's true that beauty has absolutely incredible virtues and our eyes can't help but wander around and see things. You have to live with all that”replied the director.
“As long as it's the eyes that wander (…) I thought I understood that infidelity was a way of exploring and that it was almost good…”continued the lawyer columnist in “L’heure des pros”. “When we engage in infidelity it is because at some point we have a crush, we have doubts and we are no longer sure of ourselves”the filmmaker said again.
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A little earlier in the program, Pascal Praud had already questioned him about his relationship with loyalty and women. The director, who came to present his new film called Eventually and his work Cinema is better than life (Les Presses de la Cité), had specified that love came, for him, through admiration. “You can love a woman all your life if you break records every day, if you impress her every day. What is love? We go through admiration. Me, today, I am with Valérie Perrin, I am full of admiration for this woman and this admiration is love. »
