INTERVIEW
While La belle époque , his second film as a director, has attracted crowds in dark rooms since Wednesday, and that some characters seem to inspire the entourage of Nicolas Bedos, the artist spoke about his childhood at the microphone 1. In the program There's only one life in life , he talked about how his parents' friends, his father and his sister, influenced his life.
"I was very lucky, I am reluctant to talk about it because not everyone has the luck that I had to have species of directors and directors of conscience," says Nicolas Bedos. Among his parents' friends, for example, were screenwriter Jean-Loup Dabadie and feminist activist lawyer Gisèle Halimi.
"I spent a bit of insouciance during my adolescence"
"Gisèle, in particular, took me a lot to movies, theater, reading books, and sometimes it was a bit stuffy, a bit annoying because she took me to see Ken's Mike Leigh's films. Loach, at an age when I wanted to go back to the future, and then I had to talk about it, "he recalls. In La belle époque , one of Marianne's best friends, played by Fanny Ardant, is also called Gisèle.
"I was a little insouciant during my teenage years, but today I can not talk too much about all those incredible characters who crossed my parents' living room because I'm a little ashamed", says the director.
"A kind of theater of family, human and social relations"
Because facing him, "like a mirror", there was his half-sister, Melanie, two years older, daughter of actor Guy Bedos and actress Sophie Daumier, who lived in a social environment less attractive than his. A sister who made him understand that life is a raffle. "It has determined everything," repeated Nicolas Bedos several times. "These are organizations of life, and no one is at fault in this whole story and everyone is a little bit, but it's complicated," he says.
The director of the third opus of OSS 117 explains: "Me, it gave me a kind of theater of the familial, human and social relations a little more sophisticated than I would have liked to live it at that age. someone who did not exactly have the same treatment of life, that's something I'll talk about someday, with whom I'll maybe do some cinema, and even a comedy! who is a little self and who is not self, maybe everyone should live that, not to feel guilty, but to know how lucky we are. "
"I was born in a favored environment among very cultivated, very loving people"
According to him, "there are elected representatives socially, emotionally, aesthetically, life is an incredible injustice". Nicolas Bedos admits to having had the chance to be born "in a favored environment among very cultivated, very loving people" with a father - Guy Bedos - older than average. He feels lucky to have been "the confidant of this much older man, both very young in his head, very attractive, very fit, very lively and much more fun than many fathers of 30 years younger ".
"If I had not had the chance to collect the stories of those 50s, 60s, 70s, I would not do the movies I do," he says. And to add: "I do not have children and I'm not unhappy about making it at a relatively mature age because I have a lot to give them."