In the Europe 1 cinema show, "Clap!", A guest takes part in a weekly cinema questionnaire on the films of his life.

This Saturday, it is the singer Bénabar who answered questions from Mathieu Charrier.

INTERVIEW

Every Saturday for an hour in Clap !, the cinema specialist of Europe 1, Mathieu Charrier, takes a tour of the news of the seventh art.

Each week, a guest, whether or not he or she is from the world of cinema, submits to a personal questionnaire on the films of his life.

This Saturday, the singer Bénabar lent himself with sincerity to this game.

Your first memory of cinema?

My earliest movie memories, really identified as such, I think are

ET

and

Indiana Jones

.

Another one too: I was with my grandparents and my brother, who is 5 years older than me, had been to see the first

Star Wars

.

And I was too small, I hadn't been there.

I remember it as a deprivation, as a punishment.

And so, my first memory of cinema is negative.

I made up for it: I am part of the generation of those who had all the little toys, and who actively contributed to the immense fortune of George Lucas.

(

laughs

)

Which movie have you seen the most?

I think it's

Vincent, François, Paul… and the others

by Claude Sautet.

It is still a major reference that matters to me, including in my career as a songwriter.

Claude Sautet and Jean-Loup Dabadie ... this cinema was a revelation for me.

It is a cinema of screenwriters which is similar to the cinema of Bacri and Jaoui.

I love these films.

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What movie do you love, but ashamed to admit?

No.

[…] I am not at all ashamed at that level.

On the contrary, I have a certain fascination with bad taste, for what some consider bad taste but which is not necessarily so.

On the other hand, but it's a question of age, I find it more and more difficult, if not at all, to spend a Sunday afternoon sprawled in front of

Transformers

.

It pisses me off.

I managed to fall asleep with my son in front of

Transformers

in 3D, with the music blaring.

So there, I said to myself: damn, I got old! 

Which movie would you recommend to your best friend?

A film to support French cinema, a film that I saw by chance, called

Mais Vous Are Fous

(by Audrey Diwan with Pio Marmaï and Céline Sallette,

editor's note

).

This film disturbed me, it shoved me.

It's a worked film, plus the pitch is so twisted.

He's a guy who takes coke, who has a Parisian bobo life with a job, not the junkie cliché at all.

On the contrary, he is very nice, everything is going well in his life, he has a great wife who loves him and two kids.

But one of the kids is going to have a health problem because she's been in contact with cocaine.

And there, their world collapses.

I found the tone of this film, which is never pathos, and the acting, very astonishing.

Anyway, it's one of the best movies I've seen lately.

Which film would you recommend to your worst enemy?

See

Transformers

in 3D on a Sunday afternoon, with the sound blazing.

The most beautiful movie scene according to you?

There is a scene that I revere in

James Cameron's

Abyss

.

They are two at the bottom of the sea, in a small module (taking water,

note)

, and must join the main ship.

The girl and the guy only have an oxygen cylinder for two, and since only he is able to make the way, he has to let her drown before he can take her away (hoping revive her once arrived at destination,

editor's note

).

And so they say goodbye to each other.

He finally understands that this is the right solution, the best solution, otherwise they will both die.

To save the woman he loves is first of all to let her die.

It's a magnificent scene.

I am moved just by talking about it.

I started out as a screenwriter, that's my original vocation, and in the business we say that these are scenes where all the characters are right: there is a real conflict, and there, in addition, there is of love.

It is an overwhelming scene.

And finally, what is the soundtrack that has marked your life the most?

There are the original tapes of Philippe Sarde, a lot of Ennio Morricone.

But if I had to keep only one, it would be

America's Once Upon a Time

.