Tim Burton, "Metropolis" and "Forrest Gump": The Cinematic Chinese Portrait of Zep

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.

BD author Zep has agreed to participate in the Chinese portrait game this Saturday. 

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Your first memory of cinema? 

"The first film that

stood out to

me, I think it was

. It sounded great to me, there were so many famous actors dying, I thought it was crazy. I loved westerns when I was small, but I still had this discomfort with the Indians who were presented as big savages that the Cowboys killed. I found that not very cool, whereas there, suddenly, it was the bad guys who were in the service of a good cause and getting knocked out. There was something really super heroic about it. "

Your best memory in the dining room?

"I think it's the first when I went to see

by Tim Burton. Because there, it was really an incredible slap. Visually, it was crazy and I did not expect not at all like that. I was with my girlfriend at the time, we were both just graduating from art school, we knew a little bit about Tim Burton's career. We had seen

, we knew that he was a designer… I had seen a few photos, but nothing, nothing moving. We were told: 'yes, it's a musical'. I admit that I don't love musicals, but it was so beautiful. Each character, each setting was sublime. We wanted to walk in this city. "

Your craziest movie screening?

"When I was 20-25 years old, something like that, I had a friend who was a projectionist and in a small room and we pricked the reels, we sneaked them. We did projections in the garden of a buddy, a sort of private cinema club and we presented the film. We invited 150 friends, there was food and drink and we played the 'Monsieur cinema': 'There, yes, in this film in 1937 ... So I remember introducing

and it started raining during the movie. And it was great because we were really in the movie. By the end, everyone got out of the way and we had rotten the spool, we were in deep trouble. "

The film that you would have liked to see in the cinema? 

"Metropolis

, I've missed it twice! It's screened in the cinema and I go there and like an idiot, I arrive, they tell me it's sold out. Both times it was with an orchestra, in more. 

During the confinement, in Geneva, the cinemas reopened, but as there are no novelties, they have played the old films.

I saw The

, I had never seen it in the movies. "

The cult movie you've never seen? 

"I've never seen ET I've seen bits of ET a thousand times I've watched ET twice with my kids and slept the whole way through so I've never seen it all. Regularly, when I take the train, I say to myself: 'come on, I'm doing an ET', and then I say to myself no, because I know 95% of the film. But I will still miss 5%. "

What movie do you love, but ashamed to admit? 

"We will have seen everything

, it's a film with Miou-Miou and Pierre Richard, from the 70s. It's the story of Pierre Richard and Hervé Guibert who wrote a screenplay and want to make a film. And in fact, Their film is bought by Morlock Productions, named after a character played by Jean-Pierre Marielle, who is sublime and who produces porn films. He turns their romantic fresco into a porn film and they dare not tell anyone. . They hired all their friends to play in it and until the end, they dare not say it ... We go until the shooting. It's really very, very funny. It's also the symbol of a time when there was a certain levity in relation to sex, television and cinema. Except that the cinema has become hyper prudish. There he was more relaxed. "

The masterpiece you hate?

"All of Terrence Malick's movies, actually, I hate it. I find it unbearably pretentious. For me, it's the Americans who want to make intellectual cinema and that's silly. They say silly things, like, 'the sky is blue and when you're sad, it hurts', with violins, sunsets, stuff. I can't stand it. But yet there is often something that attracts me to it and I still go. see."

The most beautiful movie scene, according to you?

"When Charlot comes back to City

he paid for the florist's operation and she sees it again. She says 'oh that poor bum!' He wants a rose, but he doesn't want it. pay it. She laughs at him and suddenly she touches his hands. She understands that it's him. And at that moment, I think it's sublime. "

The movie that made the most laughs?

"It depends on the times. Frankly, there are De Funès that made me laugh. But since then, there are others.

, it made me scream with laughter. I was a huge fan. by Kevin Smith. I had the impression that this was going to be more my favorite filmmaker for decades. And then, it's true that after

, it fell apart a bit. "

The movie that made you cry the most?

"

, no doubt. Or

. But me, I am very crying in the cinema. It makes my daughter laugh, as soon as there is a melodramatic scene she looks at me, she says: 'You cry ', and I cry. "

Your favorite time to go to the movies?

"8 p.m. Classic."

What place in the room?

“I like being seated in front. I like it. I like barely seeing the edges of the screen. I love going to see IMAX movies because even though it's video and I don't "can't read the subtitles, because I'm too close, I think being lost in a screen is great. After that, it depends on which movie. I saw 

in IMAX." It pissed me off a bit because it moves too much and I didn't understand a thing, but for example,

in IMAX was sublime.

The soundtrack that has marked your life the most?

The

, I think.

Everything is awesome.

I saw him in the cinema when he came out.

We saw all the local stars who played a small role in it, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, who sells blind musical instruments… There were lots of great winks.