Guest of Time for the pros this Wednesday, November 13 to talk about his book, Cinema is better than lifereleased on October 31, Claude Lelouch returned to some of his own quotes. Two of them in particular caused the show's reviewers and Pascal Praud to react as the director, a lover of women, made comments that are now outdated in the post-Me Too era. It all started when Pascal Praud asked his guest about a sentence he heard from him in the media: “The other day you said, it surprised me, 'We can change women when we find something better'. But what's better than a woman you love?“.
“Claude Lelouch compares women to refrigerators, Pascal Praud reacts
“When I say that we are faithful until we find something betterit's because it's true, whether it's for a woman, a car, a fridge, anything“, replied Claude Lelouch, immediately provoking strong reactions from the other people present on the set. “Oh my! Oh my!“, exclaimed Pascal Praud, even more surprised and a little amused. “But no, but it pulls you up, it forces us to be better and better, it forces us to improve. You can love a woman all your life if you break records every dayif we impress him every day“, justified the director – who also claims that “women are successful men” and who claims to have dedicated all his films to women.
“Married women should thank mistresses“: Claude Lelouch discusses his vision of infidelity
A few minutes later, Pascal Praud, however, returns to Claude Lelouch's vision of infidelity. “When, in a romantic relationship, to sometimes justify infidelity, you say 'I'm a life reporter and I looked elsewhere to see what's going on'I assure you that in a marital discussion, in the evening, tell your wife 'Honey, I'm a reporter of life, I cheated on you but I adore you but I wanted to look elsewhere'it's not easy“, laughed Pascal Praud. To which Claude Lelouch responded with a very personal vision: “But you know, married women should thank mistresses because there are impressive returns. I mean a lot of times when we go somewhere else, we're happy to come home.“
“We're going to have big problems“: Pascal Praud criticizes Claude Lelouch on his dubious comparisons
“We're going to have big problems there. Dear Claude, I assure you, in management – I often say that the fractures are generational – I have a young woman in my earpiece – already the comparison between women and refrigerators, I had the right to a first remark , but the second…“, exclaims Pascal Praud, pushing his guest to justify himself again. “No, but you didn't understand what I said. We are constantly improving the world. This world we live in, we never stop improving it. And I realize it, today we have an extraordinary world, we have all the tools today to create a new world, or to precipitate the end of the world. We have never been in such an important, pivotal, crazy era. But it's true that beauty has absolutely incredible virtues and it's true that we can't help but, our eyes can't stop wandering and wandering and seeing things and that's it and we have to live with all that“, declared Claude Lelouch, visibly drowning the fish without really explaining his previous comments. And adding: “When we fall into infidelity, it is because at a given moment we have a crush, because at a given moment we have doubts, because at a given moment we are no longer sure of itself, you know what I mean“.
