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

On Saturday, it was the film producer Dominique Besnehard who answered Margaux Baralon's questions about the feature films he considers memorable, from his best memory in theaters to the film in which he would like to live.

INTERVIEW

Every Saturday for an hour in 

CLAP!

, Europe 1 makes the rounds 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.

Saturday, the film producer

, Dominique Besnehard, who was also the agent of the stars Isabelle Adjani, Béatrice Dalle, Christophe Lambert, Nathalie Baye and Michel Blanc, plunged into his memories of film buff at the microphone of Margaux Baralon.

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What is your first memory of cinema?

"It was when I watched 

The Longest Day

, a film that tells about the Landing of June 6, 1944. It was in 1962, I must have been eight or nine years old, and I have fond memories of it because I was in Normandy. In this region, that was the event. Everyone went to see the film. My own parents were young during World War II even though they were more in the countryside, in Vire. The D-Day landings , for a kid, it's still strong. It marked me because I had my parents next to me and I said to myself that they could have perished. This film represents a very violent memory, that of the D-Day landings , but this event also saved France too, but especially to see my parents there.

Your best memory in the dining room?

I remember 

Titanic

, a film I saw in the provinces.

With my job, I usually see films before, during private screenings without spectators.

For this movie, there were terrible lineups.

Being with the audience marked me and I remember taking a blow to the face anyway.

To have seen him in public is a very good memory.

Moreover, I hope that people will come back to the cinema after this period of Covid-19 to have this kind of communion of spectators in front of a big show.

Your craziest movie screening?

I had an incredible session.

I had done the casting of

Out of Africa

with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.

The cast, English, asked me to find the African actors.

The actor Malick Bowens, to thank me for allowing him to make this film, invited me to the premiere in London.

So I went with a friend to London and we were in the middle of the room.

Two armchairs in front of us, Lady Di and Prince Charles have arrived!

We hallucinated.

So I saw

Out of Africa

, which lasts quite a long time, with Lady Di and Charles in front of me.

I can tell you they weren't moving.

It's a memory I can't forget, I really saw Lady Di up close.

The movie you would like to live in?

I would have liked to live in the time of Louis XIV, so I would have liked to live in Roberto Rossellini's film, 

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

.

I would have liked to live at that time but not to be among the poor, to be among the courtiers.

It was still nice, there was debauchery, there was everything at that time.

Even though he still had a lot of religion as well.

The original soundtrack that struck you the most?

It is that of a film which I cast and of which I am very proud since it is the film of a generation. This is the

37 ° 2

original soundtrack 

on the morning

of Jean-Jacques Beineix with Béatrice Dalle and our friend Jean-Hugues Anglade. The music is by Gabriel Yared, who is a great musician. The music is absolutely brilliant, we remember it! Because sometimes, film scores, apart from those of Georges Delerue… At the time, we still had musicians with Gabriel Yared, Georges Delerue or even Jean Wiéner. Now, I am unable to appreciate film scores. We have the impression that all the songs are metallic, industrial… They are not good. "