Xavier Giannoli: "Cinema can extend the Balzac gesture without betraying it"

Balzac has never ceased to accompany Xavier Giannoli since his studies of letters, and one would find traces of it in all his films. This time, he staged it directly in Human Comedy , from the second part of the Lost Illusions , A great provincial man in Paris . A sumptuous vast period fresco (blockbuster of 19 million euros) where we will see swirling around the young Benjamin Voisin alias Lucien de Rubempré, Cécile de France and Jeanne Balibar, Xavier Dolan, Vincent Lacoste, Gérard Depardieu, André Marcon … In full work after the shooting of his film which should be released by the end of 2020, Xavier Giannoli left the editing room for a moment to celebrate the great visionary novelist.

LE FIGARO.- For you, Balzac goes with the cinema?

Xavier GIANNOLI.- My Sorbonne professor, Philippe Berthier, spoke about literature from the perspective. And Eisenstein in his Staging Lessons taught cutting from Father Goriot . Unlike Zola,

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