There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.
Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child. - Louis Garrel
Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.
- Louis Garrel
I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge. - Louis Garrel
I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.
Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris." - Louis Garrel
Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."
Since I knew I was going to make a film that was purely about emotions, and I knew that I ran the risk of being accused of amnesia relating to the so… - Louis Garrel
Since I knew I was going to make a film that was purely about emotions, and I knew that I ran the risk of being accused of amnesia relating to the so…
Because I'm Parisian, I wanted to show a Paris that I don't see at the movies, so I spent a lot of time looking for places that have never been filme… - Louis Garrel
Because I'm Parisian, I wanted to show a Paris that I don't see at the movies, so I spent a lot of time looking for places that have never been filme…
People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer. - Louis Garrel
People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.
I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And Im always afraid I didnt get those 10 seconds. - Louis Garrel
I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And Im always afraid I didnt get those 10 seconds.
There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other. - Louis Garrel
There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.
I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!" - Louis Garrel
I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"
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