He is preparing his fiftieth film and swears that "
the crazy year 2020
" inspires him.
Guest of the “8 pm of Darius Rochebin” on LCI, he shows that soon 83 spring, he has not lost any of his energy.
Fascinated by the virtue of the unforeseeable and by the unpredictability of life, Claude Lelouch agreed to comment on current affairs issues and in particular the new selection rules defined by the American academy, which have just enacted strict criteria intended for promote diversity in nominated films.
These new requirements should apply from 2024.
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Claude Lelouch sees in these new measures a sort of obstacle to the freedom to create: “
The world of artists is the world of irrationals ... There we want to create regulations for freedom.
I have the feeling that there are the Marx Brothers behind it all or Jacques Tati or Chaplin.
At the Oscars, we reward tears, laughter and goosebumps.
And no one can know how it works goosebumps.
"
The application of these rules and their effectiveness also seemed to him rather doubtful: "
Ideas, they are the air, they do not choose blacks, whites, greens, blues ... I think that between the rules and their application, there is an ocean of possibilities.
This is not how we can intelligently distribute the differences that separate us today.
It is not feasible.
We will have to learn to swim.
And, you know it's not for nothing that the Oscars and Caesars are in crisis.
"
Basically, looking back on life and its taste for the unexpected, always mixed with a happy lightness, seemed to him the surest way to ensure respect for differences: “
There is an incredible force in all these speeches but there is you have to keep your humor.
When I see all that, I want to take my camera and do
L'Aventure, c'est l'Aventure
and make fun of all these theories that don't hold water.
"A very good idea to adapt to the 21st century, this comedy that Lelouch himself had described as"
a huge fresco on bullshit
".
Darius Rochebin receives Claude Lelouch