"Z", "The Tenant", "Barry Lyndon": the films of the life of Sorj Chalandon

On the Europe 1 cinema show, & quot; CLAP! & Quot ;, a guest takes a weekly cinema questionnaire on the films of his life. On Saturday, journalist and writer Sorj Chalandon answered questions from Mathieu Charrier about his favorite feature films, from the one who made him laugh the most to the one who gave him the craziest cinema session.

In the cinema program of Europe 1, "CLAP!", A guest takes part every week a cinema questionnaire on the films of his life.
On Saturday, journalist and writer Sorj Chalandon answered questions from Mathieu Charrier about his favorite feature films, from the one who made him laugh the most to the one who gave him the craziest cinema session.

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 from the world of cinema, submits to a personal questionnaire on the films of his life.

On Saturday, it was Sorj Chalandon, the journalist and writer whose novel

Profession du père

was adapted for the cinema - in a film of the same name released last Wednesday in partnership with Europe 1 - who played the game.

>> Find Mathieu Charrier's shows every Saturday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Europe 1 as well as in replay and podcast here

Your first memory of cinema?

from Costa-Gavras. I think I've seen it about thirty times. I suddenly understood that the cinema was something that made people clench their fists. I went there, I went back. ... At the time, there were still permanent sessions where the films were made and where we remained seated. I knew all the dialogues in this film, we rehearsed them with friends. It was one of the films that I liked. got angry for the first time. I thought, 'Wow! Cinema is not just for laughs.'

I don't think I've ever cried so much in anger in front of a movie.

Your worst memory in the gym?

My God. I have it in mind because I left the room. It was at a screening for "The Tenant", that magnificent Polanski film. It is the story of a person who lives in an apartment that belonged to a woman who committed suicide. I was in the room and there were a lot of people. People were eating popcorn and that's already extremely difficult with Polanski on screen. At one point in the film, Polanski dresses as a woman. He puts himself in the shoes of the resident who was there before.

Next to me, I hear a guy laughing 'queer!'

I went.

It is a memory for me which is of such brutality ... After, I said to myself that it would be necessary to have a license of cinema as a driving license.

It would take a few questions before the film to be able to return.

It would be disgusting, obviously, but I never saw the film again because it's associated in my mind with something absolutely violent.

I feel like something extremely loud is going to happen and all of a sudden there's the voice of a little bastard to my right saying 'queer' like that while eating stuff.

I left, I got out, it was raining ... I went to breathe and maybe I even cried.

Your craziest movie screening?

The craziest was for 'The Wind Rises' by Ken Loach.

Quite simply because it's Ireland, because I know or think I know and because when I was screened in 1920 with that filmmaker, with those images, that tone and that violence. Suddenly, I got out, I was wet with the rain, I had a large cap like in (the series) Peaky Blinders on my head.

Clearly, it was crazy because I was totally immersed in the Irish Civil War during the two hours of the film.

It is quite rare.

Usually during movies there are people looking at their watches or yawning.

Me, this time, I was flabbergasted from start to finish.

The movie you would like to live in?

It's

Barry Lyndon

I want to be in this light, in this music, with these people ... Without necessarily having them notice me.

But I would like to be in that place, at that time, with those candles and with that violence too.

Which movie made you laugh the most?

I was small but I think it was

La Grande Vadrouille

made me laugh because, for the first time, we laughed at the Nazis.

It was brand new.

Before, we weren't allowed to laugh at the Nazis.

But suddenly, there, I laugh with Louis de Funès and Bourvil about these people who have hurt us.

And that made me feel good.

The soundtrack that has marked your life the most?

That of

Once upon a time there was a revolution

. Again for Ireland. And, with

, it is the film that I have seen the most and in all languages. "