“For the first time I felt free…”: This film was a turning point for Scorsese

When Martin Scorsese talks, we listen. Awarded at the recent Berlin Film Festival, the legendary American filmmaker revealed to journalists which film has acted as a trigger for his entire career.

The movie that made March feel “free”.

The work that first allowed Martin Scorsese to feel “free” And therefore, to whom moviegoers owe a great deal, is one of his collaborations with Robert De Niro. But perhaps that’s not what immediately springs to mind, as a filmmaker whose two favorite films of 2023 surprisingly cite… La Valse des pantins!

“after that Waltz of the dollsI didn’t know anything anymore.”said Martin Scorsese During the 2024 Berlinale, This is reported by The Hollywood Reporter. “I put everything into it A raging bullthen inside Taxi driver, New York, New York And finally Waltz of the dolls.”

“I had to start from scratch.”

“When I say that I didn’t know anything anymore, it means that I then felt free to rethink everything”continues the New York filmmaker. “I had to start from scratch. And luckily, I feel like that’s happened a few times in my life.”

In 1983, it was released in cinemas, a comedy-drama Waltz of the dolls It tells the story of Rupert Pupkin, a little-known comedian who kidnaps a TV show host (Jerry Lewis) in order to gain recognition and only agrees to release him on the condition that he appear on his show. A film that Martin Scorsese sees as the end of a cycle, a work that allowed him to bounce back and continue a career that would turn out to be nothing short of exceptional.

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