Claude Lelouch, la vie en mieux
 

POSTED ON 18.10.2024

A portrait of the spontaneous filmmaker.

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THE SUBJECT: “I haven't seen the time go by; I haven't been bored stiff for a second”. So begins Élise Baudouin's documentary, co-written with Stéphane Boudsocq, told by Claude Lelouch in first person, revisiting 60 years of indomitable cinema.

THE METHOD: On the set of Finally, his latest movie, we look back at the famous Lelouch method. His world is  composed of archive footage, numerous extracts and lots of moving camerawork, not to mention the testimonies of actors Gérard Darmon, Kad Merad, Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Louis Trintignant telling unscripted stories.

PLUS: We learn plenty of things: that the adventure of A Man and a Woman, the first French film to win two Oscars, is described by Lelouch as “an amateur film that went around the world”.  Then there are previously unseen images of the young Claude and his first film, Le Propre de l'homme: “I was overconfident. It was the film made by a cocky kid”. And in the course of this comprehensive documentary, there’s the touching image from the personal archives of the filmmaker as a child that portray him playing with his mother. Inevitably. 

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Screenings:

Claude Lelouch, la vie en mieux by Élise Baudouin (Documentary, 2024, 1h10)

Institut Lumière (Villa) Sat. 19 at 2.45 pm | Institut Lumière (Villa) Sat. 19 at 3.00 pm