In 2005, George Lucas bid farewell to “Star Wars”

• On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, "20 Minutes" shares with you the most striking memories of its journalists.

• Today, George Lucas' farewell to "Star Wars" in the middle of the Cannes Film Festival.

2005, May 15.

It's the big day for George Lucas.

At Cannes, he presents

, the last film in the

saga that he directed himself, before receiving a trophy celebrating his career on the Queen Mary 2 moored in the bay.

Pathological shyness

George Lucas is a huge filmmaker but not the most expansive man in the galaxy.

Despite the film's triumphant reception that very morning, his pathological shyness seems to serve as a pretext for him to avoid the gaze of the privileged who seek to compliment him.

And no matter how much you are a film journalist for

fan yourself

.

At the end of the ceremony, I go all out and slip aboard the canoe which takes the maestro back to dry land.

At the stern, George Lucas faces the spray with an air worthy of a ship's captain in stormy weather.

Lost for lost, I throw myself: “You are… the king of the world today!

Unexpected chance: this allusion to

makes him laugh.

“You are right but I am a little sad, confides the filmmaker to me.

Today, I am saying goodbye to my children.

This is the end of a story for me.

" What ?

No !

He can't do that and you tell him that without even thinking.

"Oh, they will continue to exist without me," he says with a smile before leaving the canoe.

And I see him walking away with his trophies trying to avoid the crowd waiting for him on the beach...

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