In the Parisian premises of his French distributor, Memento, Tarik Saleh catches his breath.
Smiling, the director of the excellent political thriller
Le Caire confidential
released in 2017, cannot believe the quality of the public who welcomed his new film
La Conspiracy du Caire
, last night at the Le Louxor cinema
.
"You French people don't know how lucky you are!"
, he smiles.
With relaxation and a sense of story that wins over, this half-Egyptian, half-Swedish filmmaker answers questions without pretense, while biting into an apple between each sentence.
LE FIGARO.
- Where does the idea of setting your thriller at the heart of a Koranic school come from?
Tarik Saleh.
-
It comes to me from the novel
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco, which I read when I was in high school.
Back then, in the late 1980s, it was like discovering the
Harry Potter
saga .
I devoured this mystical thriller without asking myself any questions?
When I reread it five years ago, I became aware of the depth…
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