In the new cinema show of Europe 1, "Clap", a guest lends himself each week to a Chinese portrait around the cinema.
This Saturday, it is the author and director Joann Sfar who answers this questionnaire of Proust version Seventh art.
INTERVIEW
Every Saturday in
Clap
, the cinema specialist of Europe 1 Mathieu Charrier and his columnists take a tour of the news of the Seventh art.
Each week, a guest submits to a Proust cinema version questionnaire.
On the occasion of the release of the last volume of
the Rabbi's Cat
, the author and director Joann Sfar has agreed to play the Chinese portrait game.
Your first memory of cinema?
The Indian dance in
Peter Pan
with the beautiful Lili the tigress I was in love with.
I keep the image of her hair, which I was inspired by for the heroine
of The Rabbi's Cat
.
Your best memory in the dining room?
I lost my virginity at the cinema during
Rambo 3
.
I was 16 and a half, I was very happy.
It was at the cinema in Nice, avenue Jean-Médecin.
I saw the film again afterwards, I still have great affection for it.
Your worst memory in the gym?
My worst memory is
Crocodile Dundee 2
, I left in the middle.
I have crazy sympathy for Paul Hogan, but it was just too bad.
The first one was formidable.
The cult movie you've never seen?
I have never seen
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
when it has everything to be my favorite movie.
When I arrived in Paris there were sessions but I was lazy.
On DVD, I'm not interested, I think it's the event that interests me.
The movie that you are ashamed to love?
There are so many.
I love going to the César box set, moaning about French cinema and playing my old cinephile con of 30 years ago.
When I watched
An Easy Girl
, I thought it was an absolute masterpiece.
I am ashamed to have loved a recent French film so much.
Which movie have you seen the most?
It is undoubtedly
Conan the Barbarian
of John Milius.
I know it by heart, I've seen it at least 200,000 times.
I know this is an unreliable adaptation of Robert E. Howard's books, but I love John Milius.
And then there is
Star Wars
.
With friends, you had to know them by heart.
When I was young, you had to know them by heart with your friends.
I must have seen the first between thirty and forty times.
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The most beautiful movie scene?
I'm not going to be original, but for me it's either Mastroianni in his bath in
Eight and a Half
, or the little boy with his cake in
Once Upon a Time in America
.
He stole a cake to go see a prostitute and he is waiting on the stairs.
And since he's still a little boy, he's eating the cake.
Which movie made you laugh the most?
When I watch
Frankenstein Junior
, I'm under the chair every time.
When he says "Frau Blücher" and there is a flash.
When his wife tells him it's taffeta and you can't touch her dress.
When the guy takes the abnormal brain and puts it in the monster.
When Frankenstein dances on
Putting on the Ritz
.
I'm Mad about Mel Brookes, the director.
I'm someone who hates the second degree and Mel Brookes is absolute first degree.
He's stupid like a Bugs Bunny and I don't like anything like him.
The dialogue that you know by heart?
Not much, I forget everything.
When I try to quote, I quote wrong.
Which movie would you recommend to your best friend?
An elephant is very misleading
, or anything signed by Jean-Loup Dabadi or Yves Robert.
What about your worst enemy?
Films that have prices we don't know why, on which we pay compliments because we don't want to sound like an idiot.
Your craziest movie screening?
A screening of a horror film at the Gérardmer festival.
People fell in love with a needle going into an eye.
The soundtrack that struck you the most?
I think it's
Yentl's
, with Barbra Streisand.