On the Europe 1 cinema show, "CLAP!", A guest takes a weekly cinema questionnaire on the films of his life.
On Saturday, it was the French comic strip author Florence Cestac who answered Mathieu Charrier's questions about his memorable feature films, from the most moving to the one whose public reception was the most ... mixed.
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 from the world of cinema, submits to a personal questionnaire on the films of his life.
On Saturday, comic book author Florence Cestac, whose latest album,
Un papa une maman
, has just been released, immersed herself in her memories as a cinephile.
Memories marked by pirates, a piano on a beach and mobsters.
What is your first memory of cinema?
Culture, with me, was not brilliant.
But my first memory is my father who took me to the movies.
He loved pirate movies and we had seen
The Bounty Revolt,
with Marlon Brando.
I think this is the first movie I saw.
For me it was magnificent.
And then I was a teenager, so Marlon Brando ... it didn't leave you indifferent.
Your best memory in theaters?
This is
The Piano Lesson
, by Jane Campion.
It's a spellbinding film, with this strange nature, a place [New Zealand] that we did not know, with strange landscapes, with twisted trees ... and this piano lying on the beach.
History and great, Harvey Keitel is still not bad either.
And of course the music is wonderful.
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The film that you love but are ashamed to confess?
The Tontons gunslingers
.
I love this movie, while it's not pretty, it's not really a movie for a girl.
But it makes me laugh a lot, I love the dialogue.
Which movie have you seen the most?
I think it's
The Godfather
, the three parts, one after the other.
It's a great classic that I watch quite often.
It's well balanced, well written, it's superb.
The masterpiece you hate?
The young ladies of Rochefort
.
I never liked that movie, I hate it.
I find that silly.
Everything pisses me off, even the music.
Your favorite director?
It goes from Wes Anderson, whom I like a lot, notably
The Grand Budapest Hotel
, to the Coen brothers, passing by Fellini, Coppola or Scorsese.
The movie that made you laugh the most?
It's Laurel and Hardy.
My father had a projector, he showed us short short films so I saw them.
And then I saw them in the movies I think.
Then I bought cassettes.
I iron one regularly and it always makes me laugh.
Now I have grandchildren and I pass them on to them.
It's timeless, I assure you they laugh as much as I do.
Which movie made you cry the most?
It's
All About My Mother
, by Pedro Almodovar.
I remember, it was one afternoon, I didn't feel like working anymore so I put my pencil down and went to the movies.
And there I had not taken handkerchiefs.
I went out and I had my sweater completely soaked through I had cried.
Tears that flowed, that flowed, I could not stop myself.
It had upset me.
A dialogue that you know by heart?
Les Tontons flingueurs
, when Bernard Blier gets a tremendous punch by Lino Ventura.
And he falls to the ground.
"The crazy people, I take care of them. I'm going to show him who it is, Raoul. I dynamite, I disperse, I ventilate."
Which movie would you recommend to your best friend?
That of Albert Dupontel released just before confinement,
Adieu les cons
.
It's very cheerful, I like this film.
And this scathing humor is kind of mine.
Which film would you recommend to your worst enemy?
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.
It doesn't make me laugh, it's gnan-gnan.
The soundtrack that marked your life?
Those of Nino Rota for
Le Casanova
by Federico Fellini.
She is very strange, like the pictures.