LE FIGARO When did you want to adapt
Lost Illusions
?
Xavier GIANNOLI.-
In fact, I never told myself that I was going to adapt
Lost Illusions
.
I have read it I don't know how many times.
Things from my life run through the novel.
The subject of my first film,
The Impatient Bodies
, the Death of a Young Girl, I experienced it.
It resonates with Balzac with the death of Coralie, Rubempré's mistress.
I have an organic relationship to the book.
Twenty-five years later, writing the screenplay was like telling memories.
I felt a very strong intimacy with the novel.
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I made the film like the cry from the heart of the young man that I was.
A phrase from Balzac's correspondence haunts and upsets me:
"I think of those who must find something in themselves after disenchantment."
I have the impression that it sums up the story of our lives.
Rubempré loses his ideals but takes possession of himself.
I wanted to show a painful, cruel, funny, liberating passage.
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