Lelouch Exclusive Interview (2009) 55 mins

"The more I go to the movies, the more I like French movies." – Claude Lelouch

The veteran director has made over 40 of them, as well as an array of shorts and collaborative pieces, in a career spanning over 50 years and still going strong. His latest film, Crossed Tracks (Roman de gare, 2007), was well received by the critics and audiences alike, with whom he as constantly fallen in and out favour over the years through a body of work that has been marked by a signature visual flair, cars, women and music.

In an hour long interview exclusively for CinéMoi, Lelouch effusively discusses Crossed Tracks, filmmaking methods, career highs and lows, his legendary A Man and A Woman (one of the definitive visual and aural images of France) and the breath-taking short C’était un rendez-vous (“It makes Bullit look like a cartoon” – Jeremy Clarkson). In addition, the director offers his views on cinema’s place in the advent of digital technology and his experimental ‘scopitone’ films, which played on video jukeboxes in France during the 60s. A master-class in cinema.