In the new cinema show of Europe 1, "Clap", a guest lends himself every week to a Chinese portrait around the cinema.
This week, it's Jean-Paul Gaultier who answers this questionnaire of Proust version Seventh art.
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.
This week, the fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier answers the questions of this Chinese portrait.
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The first movie you saw?
Falbalas
, Jacques Becker's film with Micheline Presle.
It's a film from the 1940s, the story of a fashion designer who fell in love with Micheline Presle, obviously, who became his muse.
Why am I talking about it?
Because I wanted to become this couturier.
I had seen things in magazines before, I had seen the Folies-Bergère on television.
(…) But the film really gave me that impulse to say: "That's it, I'm going to be like the couturier".
There was that notion of a parade too, with an inspiring muse, with great lighting and everything.
So, that's why when I did fashion afterwards, I wanted to do catwalks at all costs.
If there hadn't been a show, I wouldn't have been in fashion.
Your best memory in the dining room?
There are several, but let's say the
Rocky Horror Picture Show
, by Jim Sharman, because it's something quite unique, iconic.
I had the chance to see in London, in the years 74-75.
I had seen the play on King's Road, just by chance, thanks to the poster with the bloody lips and I thought it was great.
(…) I believe that when it was released it had very limited success and afterwards it became completely cult.
Your worst memory in the gym?
I would say it's disappointment in general, anyone that has disappointed me.
There is one, including: I had gone to see the
Exorcist
, I had been told about something terrifying.
People were leaving the room, there were some vomiting in the room.
I saw it, it made me laugh a lot.
What movie do you love, but ashamed to admit?
I really like
Les Sous-doués
, by Claude Zidi, and some very frank, rather funny films.
I am not at all ashamed to like films by Jean-Pierre Mocky, for example.
A strange parishioner,
I find that extraordinary.
Which movie made you laugh the most?
The movie that made me laugh the most, I haven't seen it yet.
It is, and I am sure of it, he will make me scream with laughter, Aline by Valérie Lemercier.
Aline, obviously (in theaters in November,
editor's note
)
What film would you recommend to your best friend?
A film that I adored, which is absolutely magnificent:
Amour,
with Trintignant.
That year, I was also on the jury for the Cannes Film Festival.
It was a treat.
Ultimately, I don't have any specific movie advice.
What I would rather say is go see different kinds of films, not just focus on science fiction, for example.
(…) I'm not really into science fiction, because there are too many of them.
But I loved
Alien
.
There is a kind of atmosphere, aesthetically, it's absolutely fabulous.
They had, for the first time, put damp, spittle, etc.
Quite a terrifying mixture of metal and humidity ...
The soundtrack that marked your life?
A sequence of Hitchcock with the knife, in
Psychosis.
The movement fits the movie perfectly, see.
Or,
Once upon a time in the West
.
Both for the music, which is absolutely recognizable.
But also for fashion, in the 70s and long leather coats… It became very fashionable thanks to the film.