Alexis Patri 2:00 p.m., January 16, 2022

At the microphone of Isabelle Morizet in the program "There is not just one life in life" on Sunday, the writer and film critic Eric Neuhoff looks back on his personal and professional journey.

And especially on his arrival in Paris when he was a young man, a city he had long fantasized about.

INTERVIEW

Is it because he grew up in Cahors, then in Toulouse that Éric Neuhoff fantasized about Paris so much?

The writer and film critic explains on Europe 1 on Sunday the love he nurtured as a teenager for the capital, at a time when the city stood out much more than today from other cities in France.

An explanation that he details on the occasion of his invitation to Isabelle Morizet 

's program There is not just one life in life.

"As a child, I grew up in Paris," he says.

"But, indeed, I was a teenager in the Provinces."

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"And the fact of having been a teenager in the Provinces makes Paris a mythical city, of which we dream, where we go during the holidays", he explains.

"At the time, Paris was really another world. I remember that the films arrived at my house six months late compared to the capital. They were always in a dubbed version, which is a game changer, and they only stayed on display for a week or fifteen days at the most."

The only city to find

blue jeans

But the film critic also remembers that his short visits to the capital during his adolescence were also an opportunity to discover new stores. "The shops were not at all the same as at home," he says. "I remember that to buy

blue jeans

, as we said at the time, you had to go to Paris. You couldn't find them in the Lot or Haute Garonne."

"Paris had a singularity: it was not the same rhythm, it was not the same food, it was not the same atmosphere. There were no pedestrian streets", continues the writer.

"The shops were closed on Monday, and not on Saturday. That changes everything! It's very funny to observe, whereas today there is a form of standardization."