In the Europe 1 cinema show, "CLAP!", A guest answers a weekly cinema questionnaire on the films of his life.
On the occasion of the reopening of dark rooms on Wednesday, it was the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, who lent herself to the exercise on Saturday.
INTERVIEW
Every Saturday in
CLAP!
, a guest, whether or not from the world of cinema, submits to a personal questionnaire on the films of his life.
Saturday, it is the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, who confided in the microphone of Europe 1, on the occasion of the reopening on May 19 of the dark rooms.
Your first memory of cinema?
My first memory is a very important emotional shock.
I was in boarding school and we are told that they will take us to the cinema.
It was the first time in my life that I entered a room, I remember it cost a franc.
I am 7 years old and I have no money.
But my grandmother lived in the village of my boarding school.
So I made the wall during a slot of a quarter of an hour when I knew I was not being watched.
I ran and got to my grandmother's house.
I told her that I absolutely needed 1 franc, I think she didn't quite understand why.
She gave me the money and I was able to see
Heïdi
, by Luigi Comencini.
I remember it perhaps because it was necessary to conquer this place of hard-hitting cinema.
It was a bit of a weirdo movie, we have to admit it, but it was a unique context.
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Your best memory in the dining room?
I have so many.
But my best memory indoors still involves my grandmother.
She could neither read nor write, but she loved the cinema.
When I was with her on vacation, she took me there several times a week.
At the time of the love scenes, she would tell me to put my hand in front of my eyes… But you can imagine that I opened my fingers to the maximum!
She was crazy about American films and in particular westerns.
I think my best memory at that time was
The Man with the Golden Colts,
with the magic trio Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, Anthony Quinn.
I saw all the westerns of the 1950s and 1960s at that time.
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Your worst memory in the gym?
My worst memory indoors is
Salo, the 120 days of Sodom
by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
I remember seeing him at the Katorza cinema in Nantes.
It was the only time in my life that I had any discomfort.
I had to leave the room when the famous cycle of shit started.
I said to myself "It's not possible that it happens in the cinema".
While recognizing the value of the film, it was unbearable for me.
A movie you would like to live in?
With a few friends, we founded a kind of film library when we were 20 and we played films.
It was a discovery for me since I went from a passive role of spectator to the analysis of films.
The one that undoubtedly marked me the most, that I analyzed the most with my friends, is
The Rules of the Game
, by Jean Renoir, an incredible social satire.
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I, who lived in a bourgeois environment, looked at the people around me in a different way.
And then this Renoir camera, this depth of field which allows both to follow the protagonists in the foreground and in the background… I told myself at that moment that I would like to shoot in this kind of film. .
And I must say that one of my cult sentences is the sentence of the cook to Madame de La Bruyère, who has just asked her to salt her dishes with sea salt.
He then said to his helpers, "I accept diets, but not fads."
It’s a phrase I say when I argue with someone who has somewhat abstruse claims.
What movie do you love but are ashamed to admit?
I'm a little ashamed of loving
Amélie Poulain
, but I shouldn't.
I love this movie, I've seen it at least three times.
Maybe I should say instead that I have seen
The Seven Samurai
or
Citizen Kane
ten times
.
Which movie made you laugh the most?
It's
Les Tontons flingueurs
.
With my son, who is crazy about this movie, we spend Sunday lunches where we both recite the cult lines.
The kitchen scene fills us with happiness.
Which movie makes you cry the most?
It's
Philadelphia
, or possibly
Forrest Gump
. These films trigger in me torrents of irrepressible tears. It may also be because it corresponds to fights in my life. For
Philadelphia
, I was in the first teams that fought against AIDS, so that the sick could be treated and integrated into society. And then
Forrest Gump
has such a tender gaze on intellectual disability. And the actor who plays in both
(Tom Hanks, nldr)
is probably not for nothing.
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What is the soundtrack that has marked your life the most?
It is again that of
The rule of the game
.
This soundtrack mixes both classical music with
Coming back from the review
, by Bourvil.
This is something that I liked because it fits into the whole of the work.
It is obviously a music that we can do without and play again.