Antoine Terrel 5:16 p.m., November 27, 2021

Guest of Clap !, on Europe 1 on Saturday, the actor and filmmaker Yvan Attal spoke about his relationship with cinema and the films that marked his childhood and adolescence.

And insisted on the importance of the "Godfather", of Coppola.

"I never get tired of it," he says.

INTERVIEW

Two years after

My Stupid Dog

, he returns with his seventh film. In 

Human things

, Yvan Attal is interested in the question of consent and the "gray zone", adapting the successful novel by Karine Tuil, which tells the rape complaint filed by a young woman against the son of the new companion of his father.

Clap

Saturday guest

!

, on Europe 1, the actor and filmmaker took the opportunity to discuss his relationship with cinema, and the films that marked him when he was younger. 

Cinema entered Yvan Attal's life very early on, thanks to a small cinema in Créteil. "My parents worked on Saturdays, and dropped me off at the neighborhood cinema, I did there during the day. They dropped me off at two o'clock and came to pick me up at 7 o'clock," he recalls. "Sometimes I saw films that were forbidden to under 13s, to under 18s. And I saw the film three times in a row. So, obviously, that leaves an imprint."

It is therefore in this small cinema that the future filmmaker experienced his first feelings as a film enthusiast.

"I remember a film that was not addressed to me at all:

We will not grow old together

. I must have seen it at 8-9 years old", says the guest of Europe 1, also citing the films by Bruce Lee, Zorro, or

The Ten Commandments

. 

The Godfather, "a shock for a whole generation"

The real shock will come later, in adolescence, with

The Godfather

, by Coppola, "a shock for a whole generation". "Every time I think of the Godfather, I can cry", assures Yvan Attal, "and the music is insane". And to continue: "This film, I can see it again and see it again, I never tire of it". More generally, Yvan Attal admits to adoring American cinema, and in particular the films of Sydney Lumet.

But Yvan Attal does not swear by New Hollywood filmmakers.

Also, what's her favorite romantic comedy?

"

My wife is an actress,

" he replies with a smile, referring to his first film, in which he directed his partner Charlotte Gainsbourg.

More seriously, he quotes the classics C

oup de foudre in Notting Hill

, and especially

Pretty Woman

, "the masterpiece of romantic comedies".

And Yvan Attal to entrust a particular desire in a totally opposite style.

"It's hard to find the trick, but I would love to make a horror movie."