On the seventh floor of Gaumont's headquarters in Neuilly, posters of
Beauty and the Beast
by Cocteau,
La Grande Illusion
by Renoir and
Fantômas
by Feuillade adorn the corridors.
We don't know what Nicolas Seydoux's office looks like.
The president of Gaumont prefers to talk in a meeting room.
A way of not revealing too much.
With a beard and round glasses, the 84-year-old man is faithful to his reputation as a powerful, affable and secretive man.
His Memoirs are in his image.
There is nothing immodest about them.
They do not contain any earth-shattering revelations.
But they tell the story of fifty years of French cinema.
Fifty years at the head of a legendary cinema company.
Through this book, Nicolas Seydoux would like to pass on the history of the house to current Gaumont teams.
He also intends
to “reestablish certain truths”.
Which ones?
“How I arrived at Gaumont and my relationship with Jean-Pierre Rassam.
I cannot let it be said that Jean-Pierre has…
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