In the cinema program of Europe 1, "Clap", a guest takes part each week to a questionnaire of Proust version Seventh art.

Saturday, it is the actor Gérard Jugnot who answered questions from Mathieu Charrier. 

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 book "C'est Heure des Contes" at Flammarion in which Gérard Jugnot revisits the tales of Perrault or Grimm, the actor has agreed to play the game. 

Your first memory of cinema?

It was a program where there were two medium-length films:

the Ballon rouge

 by Albert Lamorisse which was the story of a little boy who lost his balloon.

It upset me.

I was old enough to have balloons that we burst so it really tore me.

And there was

Saturnin

, a talking duckling, voiced by Ricet Barrier… and who scared me too.

Your craziest movie screening?

In Avignon, there was a film festival.

I was a die-hard movie buff.

I remember seeing a very long Japanese film at midnight, with English subtitles.

I was pretty exhausted.

I don't remember the title at all: it was a guy who fell asleep and who dreamed then woke up at the end of the film.

Me, I fell asleep at the same time as him and therefore I did not see anything of this film.

I left with the hero and was woken up at the same time as him.

The cult movie you've never seen?

Brazil

.

I'm not crazy about Terry Gilliam's universe, I'm not hooking.

It's a terrible thing, moreover: the difference between the film and the desire that people have to go see it.

Sometimes there are films that are not very good, not very successful but that we really want to see and then there are some that we should see and that we don't see.

The movie you've seen the most

Headquarters.

 I love Clouzot, I must have seen him 5-6 times.

The most beautiful movie scene according to you

There are thousands of beautiful scenes but I like it when you smile while crying or when you "laugh with a tight throat", as my friend Jean Rochefort used to say.

It was

the Rose and the Arrow

, a not-so-well-known Richard Lester film starring the late Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn.

It's the story of an old Robin Hood.

He finds Marianne who is quite old, but still very beautiful.

He's 60 years old.

And they're both about to die.

He takes his bow and says to his servant: "You will bury us where the arrow will fall."

He shoots, the arrow leaves and it never falls, it leaves in the stars, in the firmament.

I found it beautiful.

Richard Lester has made some great movies.

The movie that made you laugh the most

The problem with these films is that they make you laugh and then when you watch them you laugh less.

We had a cult movie with my friends from Splendid, it was

the

Blake Edwards

Party

, with Peter Sellers.

We laughed a lot.

But I saw it again, it's a little dull.

The movie you would recommend to your best friend

It depends… The cinema depends on the times, the days, the mood.

A good Melville or a good Clouzot…

The Army of Shadows

is a great film.

The movie that you would recommend to your worst enemy

A good 4:10 Rivette

[laughs]

I remember I was fascinated by that.

L'amour fou

 was a 4:15 movie.

I was very fond of it, out of snobbery, when I went to the film club.

I must admit that it was boring all the same.

The soundtrack that marked your life

A summer 42

or that of

Platoon

… And I forgot

the Contempt

.

Georges Delerue was a genius.