The screenwriter of Taxi DriverPalme d’Or in 1976, returned to competition at the last Cannes Film Festival. At 78, the director delivers a 26e film and continues to count in the cinema.
When we meet him on the green and shaded terrace of a chic hotel during the last Cannes Film Festival, Paul Schrader wears the anxious face of an old bulldog about to bite. At 78, the former figure of New Hollywood is back in the spotlight. Which does not reassure him, quite the contrary. « Even though I already came to Cannes several times when I was young, it always stresses me out a little to be therebegins the director ofAmerican Gigolo . I remember coming to compete for Mishima in 1985 and for Patty Hearst in 1988. Then it stopped a little… »
Short, stocky, with a thin white goatee over a gray turtleneck, Schrader often frowns over his faded blue eyes. His deep, guttural voice carries torrents of gravel. But the words he speaks are often very gentle. From his strict Calvinist childhood, the filmmaker retains a form of permanent anxiety. He knows that…
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