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13.11.2022 - 17:39 / deadline.com
French filmmaker Leos Carax discussed the highs and lows of this 42-year career at the Marrakech International Film Festival on Sunday.
He was candid about the setbacks and sense of doubt about his place on set in the early days of a shoot, across his eight feature directorial credits to date spanning Boy Meets Girl (1984), The Night Is Young (1986), Les Amants du Pont Neuf, Pola X, Tokyo!, Holy Motors and Annette.
“With each film, it’s true I’ve only done a few, but I feel like a beginner, a bit like an imposter so I need to lot of tests to get to know the new tools, cameras as the film gets on the road. I become a technician in a way,” he said.
Carax said a series of near-chance meetings with people who would become long-time collaborators had been at the heart of his career as a director.
Among these, he cited late cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier, who shot three of his early films, director of photography Caroline Champetier, who he has worked with since Tokyo!; editor Nelly Quettier, who has edited all his films since Les Amants du Pont Neuf, and his actor “alter-ego” Denis Lavant.
“I’ve been lucky in my encounters. You don’t make cinema without these sorts of encounters,” said Carax. “Film is chaos, a lot of chaos. So, you need to find people who won’t be unhappy in this chaos, who will be able to find their place.”
The director described the late Escoffier, who died at the age of just 52 years old of heart attack in 2003 in Los Angeles, as a big brother to him, who helped him make the transition to color in second film The Night Is Young (Mauvais Sang), after his black-and-white debut Boy Meets Girl.
“He was 10 older than me and the same size as me, which is actually quite important when you frame, when
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