At 74, Steven Spielberg had never tackled the musical genre.
With this updated
West Side Story
, which
he has been calling for for so long, it's done.
Zooming in from London, the American director has lost none of his enthusiasm and humor.
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West Side Story, by Steven Spielberg: the big gang did not take place
LE FIGARO.
- Do you remember the first time you saw
West Side Story
?
Steven SPIELBERG.
- I hope this doesn't sound pretentious of me, but the first time I saw
West Side Story
was in my head.
I was 10 years old in 1957. We had just moved from New Jersey to settle in Phoenix, Arizona.
My mother, a classical concert pianist, had a large collection of opera records.
One day she came back with the album of Leonard Bernstein's music.
I only listened to it six or seven times.
But I had the feeling that I had memorized it.
And I made a movie by imagining sequences on this soundtrack that I really enjoyed
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