Jean-Marie Poiré still laughs about it

Jean-Marie Poiré is a bon vivant. Cinema allowed him to satisfy his three passions: women, cars, great wines. On the screens, the man caused tons of laughter. His Memoirs are in his image, crazy, disordered, funny. He zigzags through his memories. We may not know it, but Visitors is based on a short film project that he had written at the age of 17 in a notebook that he found much later. The first title was The Adventurers of Louis VI the Fat. Without Robert Merle’s novels, perhaps the dialogue would not have been in old French. Luchini had tried to be part of the cast. The producer Alain Terzian insisted that we remove the famous “okayyyy”. We didn’t listen to him. The rest is known.

Inspired by Nathalie Delon

The director doesn’t take himself seriously. Here he looks back on his friendship with Christian Clavier which does not seem to engender melancholy. Poiré Junior has always been immersed in celluloid. His father…