“It’s extraordinary, he puts his whole soul into it”: When David Lynch was deeply moved by re-watching the images of this absolute masterpiece of cinema.

Of course, painter, visual artist, musician, photographer, filmmaker…David Lynch was a complete artist. Bringing a dark, hallucinatory and often phantasmagorical view of human relationships and the reality around us, Lynch was one of the most important filmmakers of the 20th century, whose work, unlike any other, profoundly influenced scores of artists. Beyond the cinematography alone.

“These days I often hear and read the word ‘visionary’ – it has become a kind of description, another advertising language. But David Lynch was truly a visionary – in fact, the word invented could describe it. The man and the films, series, images and sounds he left behind” Martin Scorsese commentedFollowing the announcement of Lynch’s death on January 15 at the age of 78. “He put images on the screen that were unlike anything we’d ever seen – he made everything strange and disturbing and revealing and new. And he was absolutely uncompromising, from start to finish.”

“Frank Capra was truly one of the best”

With these considerations in mind, it’s all the more moving to see Lynch still moved – even to the point of tears – by seeing images of the 7th art masterpiece he loved: It’s a Wonderful Life by Frankie. Capra.

“It’s incredible… Frank Capra was one of the best. I think this movie was made in 1946 and James Stewart He was in the war for several years. When he got out, he didn’t know if he could go back to work. And this movie happened. He does something in it that… There’s a moment in the movie where he says the word “Mary.” …it’s extraordinary. As he says, he puts his soul into it… he is so extraordinary in this film. Frank Capra was truly one of the greatest filmmakers.”

The absolute totem of Christmas movies revered by Americans, Life is Beautiful is an all-around delightful, deeply moving work that begins with its main character’s suicide attempt. A person who also sacrifices his life for the benefit of others. The one who sacrifices his studies, his desire to travel the world, all his dreams of becoming an explorer… to end up being an explorer of his city.

But he is the builder of the city, – his own – with his cheap housing for the needy and the poor. He who dreamed of being a guest of the world is actually a world builder who does not know himself. An absolutely sublime, extraordinary metaphor whose power remains completely intact 77 years after its release.