He was very excited after the screening of his film in Cannes on May 26, 2023, at the end of the Un Certain Regard selection. Une nuit is his latest opus, written with his famous friend and partner Karin Viard, starting with an unusual and surprising subway scene, then a dizzying picture, all of which question love and the passage of time in an original and poetic way. In the video interview above, Alex Lutz talks about the challenge of his very beautiful film, in theaters July 5, 2023.
It was in Cannes, after the show, in front of the public and in the presence of his team, that we met this versatile author, actor and director, who is known to everyone for swimming in Catherine’s dresses for a long time, in love. Lilian (Bruno Sanchez) in Comic pellets of the same name, broadcast on Canal+.
During the screening of “Une nuit” I felt like on Sunday, when we wait for guests all day. We prepare everything and when they arrive, we are ready with a little toast. My week lasted a year. So, when the guests came, I was not, as they say, “in full consciousness.” After that I managed to understand and enjoy it”.
Enjoying the warm welcome reserved for his unusual love story, which depicts Paris at night, almost deserted, where after fighting and arguing in a crowded metro, and then each other in an isolated photo booth, a man and a woman walk longingly in love. for each other, they cannot leave each other. The night and its stretched hours now belong to them.
A film born out of a fascinating argument, an unusual image and a cash friendship
“The scene of the argument in the subway, which I actually witnessed, was full of charm, a rather down-to-earth argument. I thought to myself that these two people would like each other. With that, I had a note in mind. “Hey, let’s make awkward love in the colorful subway photo booth as best we can”. Everything was there long before my film The guy (we’re talking about here). Then, as our friendship grew and our working relationship with Karin Viard grew, I discovered that she was the perfect partner and I wanted to do this with her.
his wish to put “The energy of a beautiful and sincere friendship, speaking honestly to each other, is quite cash” In the service of love story: “I had Karine’s voice in mind, I wanted her to put her writing skills, her energy into it.”
If Alex Lutz really wrote the film and its structure above, he really recreated it with Karin Viard, mixing very scripted and described scenes and dialogue intentions that we then allow ourselves to expand, reduce, float. One of the film’s masterful scenes, where the lovers try to define what alchemy is, although it seems entirely improvised, was thus highly described, with isolated discussion topics that the duo then worked to put in the desired order. “It really makes something because we’re a bit thin and that’s how we talk to each other in life!”
A reflection on the passage of time, an ingredient of all that is “funny, grotesque, dramatic or terrifying”
The story of Une Nuit, written in straight lines, is precisely the story of alchemy, a romantic encounter between a man and a woman, each already having a full life. A very beautiful reflection on a couple after a certain age, but also on individuals questioning themselves as time runs out.
Because, as he says in our interview above, “time that slips away like sand” he is”A favorite topic, the fertilizer of our joy, sadness, anger, rage, disappointment, desire to hug each other, our love”. Alex Lutz was happy to take care of all the details of this meeting, which was crucially recorded in the present moment, a night that liberates us in that it imposes less of a role on us than during the day. A night where love is played with small unusual or unexpected details, like a love journey, before the rise and its continuation, where we create the world, we talk a lot with each other and above all with love for each other, for and against everything. .
“I also wanted to have fun with the codes of seduction. How to be madly in love, look at the skin, the neck in inappropriate clothes, stolen from a party, parodies of clothes. Show this love with one look. Or who will like it is subjective. During adultery, a cheated person sometimes thinks: “What is it with him that he lied to me?” It was fun to play with the couple’s physical fantasies, showing them in inappropriate awkwardness that is still beautiful.”
The novel revisited and reimagined by the Alex Lutz/Karin Viard duo hits theaters this Wednesday, July 5.
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