In the new cinema show of Europe 1, "Clap", a guest lends himself every week to a Chinese portrait around the cinema.
On Saturday, it was the Belgian actor and comedian Benoît Poelvoorde who answered this Proust questionnaire, Seventh art version.
INTERVIEW
Every Saturday for an hour in
Clap
, the European cinema specialist 1 Mathieu Charrier and his columnists take a tour of the news of the Seventh art.
Each week, a guest, whether or not from the world of cinema, submits to a Proust 7th art version questionnaire.
On Saturday, the Belgian actor and humorist, Benoît Poelvoorde lent himself with sincerity and emotion to this game.
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Your best memory in the dining room?
"It is the first time that I saw my face enlarged on a screen. We had a first short film when I was 23 years old, I saw my face very very large and it blew me away".
Your first memory in the dining room?
"
Emmanuelle
. I had to wait 16 years to go see him, and it was extraordinary".
Your favorite director?
"Jeanne Campion moves me for life. But a director ... I think that you cannot love a director at all costs. There are people who touch more, but if it's the same all the time, he makes the same film all the time. I don't have a favorite director, there are only dates, and that's what is great about cinema. "
Your craziest movie screening?
"In a fantastic film festival in Brussels. There are 1,000 of them in the theater and know all the codes of films: when people go to kiss, they do 'smack smack smack' and when they must not open a door they do 'nooooon!', and the room becomes interactive. "
The most beautiful movie scene, according to you?
"In
Raging Bull,
when he's huge with his cigar. He rehearses in front of the mirror and you can tell he's happy. This guy has fought all his life trying to find a balance, he was the greatest champion. boxing, and there he is very fat and for the first time he is at ease with his conscience. This scene touches me to a point ... It's redemption when we should all say: 'fuck ***, he weighs 300 kg, he ends up in a poor bar telling his shitty anecdotes ... ', and yet he is calm, he is happy, and his conscience is in peace. That moves me.
The masterpiece you hate?
"I'm very angry with the Clint Eastwood movies. I don't think this guy deserves that much admiration. I think he makes extremely old movies, and I don't see why they say that Clint Eastwood is a genius. He's very handsome, but I think he was better actor than director. It's overrated. "
A dialogue from cinema that you know by heart?
"'Does the old bastard sleep? Well, he'll sleep better with what I'm going to put in his mouth', in
Les Tontons flingueurs
."
The last movie you saw in theaters?
"It must be one of my turnips. It's
Le Grand Bain
. It's not a turnip but I can't stand looking at myself. So I don't criticize the film, I criticize myself. I always find that we should keep what is around and remove myself, I will never get used to looking at myself. Never, never, never ... I don't like myself, I find that I play badly, that I do blot. I feel like an impostor. Yet I'm very egocentric, very megalomaniac, so I have no false modesty. But I don't like myself in the movies. "
Which movie made you laugh the most?
"It's not a movie, it's Louis de Funès, as soon as he appears in a shot. I think Christian Clavier is de Funès' darling, he has this thing that few people have. with a comic instinct, it's written in his genes. "
Which movie would you recommend to your best friend?
"Les
Demoiselles de Rochefort
".
Which film would you recommend to your worst enemy?
"
Joker
, because I think it's the start of a dying society, and this movie terrified me. It's not the subject that scares me, it's the use it's one of the most dangerous movies. I think that's what's most poisoned. It scares me, it's very American, and that's what is going to hit us in the face in two years in Europe: legitimize anger rather than think about it. "