Tonight in Cinema: Boyhood’s director tells the story of one of the most prestigious French films of all time

What is it?

This is a story of Godard that is not breathing, it says in the style of Godard and the soul that has been breathed.

If the sea doesn’t like you …

The cinema likes to talk about itself, and we have to admit that viewers love it, whether it be a prism of fiction (Eve, bush boulevard, it turns into Manhattan, artist, let’s sing in the rain …) or biographical. The second category in which we find Aviator by Martin Scorsese (which, of course, not just about the relationships with Howard Hughes) and the relationship with Ed Wood, as well as the blonde, vascular, hitchcock or even le redoutable, who shares a huge common point with Nouvelle.

Unlike Michelle Hazanavitzus, who followed the director of Pierot Le Fu, when he became radicalized (politically and cinematic) after poor reception of La Chinoise, Richard Linker returns where almost everything started: new wave breathing, new wave of freshmen. “I’m a movie buffet.”He responds to the author of the boy, when we note that the work was already in the footsteps of the movement that the revolution did in the French cinema, especially in the trilogy.

“The new wave is very inspiring for the directors’ aspirations because he tells them to go, be free and make personal films.”

“I love films, and when I first became interested in a movie theater in the early 20s, I started a cinematography club that I saw hundreds of films every year. The new wave is very inspired by directors because he tells them to go there, be free and personal.

“The idea of ​​making a movie about a smaller situation was quite new and followed by then generations. Starting with me, all my life: From my first movies, I took it like a legacy. Picasso In the painting, Stravinsky In music or Feline In the cinema … revolutions never end, we can always bring inspiration from them. “

“The movie about a new wave began about thirteen years ago, for me. My colleagues I worked with, I wrote things, I had the idea of ​​French movement.

“I wanted to see this particular movie from another perspective, so that I didn’t feel like you were watching a historical movie. It’s not a historical film. Thus, arrival is a key word for this reconstruction in Paris (and, in particular, on the suburbs of Champs-Esées, as well as à bout de souffle), which appears to be the style of Jean-Luc Godard, but seeks to realize its essence than the imitation card, that is to say. Guan-Marbek (Godard). Zoey Deutch (Jean Seber), who together with his director will unite from everyone.

“Each shot will be impressed with a movie made from 1959 and 1962, but we haven’t made Godard’s film, but someone else’s film from this time. If Richard Linker’s love for his old man’s cinema is obvious, and even if he sometimes has to re -create some iconic moments or play with his casting resemblance, he does not create a copy work of this very playful nouvelle.

“We haven’t made Godard’s film, but someone else’s film from this era”

“We have always tried to interpret things, not imitate them. It seemed to be the right angle. It did not concern the repetition of breathing image. He is not happy with the fact that we want to see (again) breathing, Richard Linker argues that even though he is American, he feels more with our new wave than with his new Hollywood.

“If I have to choose one power, yes. Absolutely. This is the personal side of the films that indicates the scales. Read the film reviews of the time when lawyers made decisions in the studio.

“Of course there was a little news Comforting In particular, but this was not seen as the golden period we describe the extreme we have now. Today she likes slightly. When we look at what was going on then, we realize that there were many good films. Things are always the case, so I never get too much on Hollywood, because there are always many good films made. Less and less by the studios, but they still see the light of day. ” Before Richard Linker continues the tour, it will be a good sign. Otherwise it is still welcome in France.

Comments collected in Maximilien Pierrette’s skin on May 19, 2025