This article comes from “Figaro Magazine”
From the director of
Don't Cry with a Full Mouth
and
La Dilettante,
we should not expect memoirs carved in stone or stuck in the spirit of seriousness.
Thus, these
Memories in chaos,
put together with the complicity of the journalist and producer Alain Kruger and the film historian Jean Ollé-Laprune, constitute a delicious stroll in the company of one of our most unique filmmakers.
Born in 1944 in Saint-Chartres, in Poitou (which would become the setting for many of his films), Pascal Thomas owes to his origins the discovery of
“songs of nature”
which
“give the feeling of being at the heart of the world ".
Hence the particularity of a cinema that is both popular and sophisticated, provincial and universal.
A little more than half a century separates
Les Zozos
(1972) from
Journey in Pajamas
(in theaters since this Wednesday) in a filmography where successes - from
Husbands, Wives, Lovers
to Agatha Christie adaptations - pleasantly abound
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