He seems to know how to play everything, leading or supporting roles, auteur cinema, mainstream films or theater with Christophe Honoré, comedies (Robins des Bois troupe, Father or Mother) or serious characters in Laurent Cantet. Marina Foïs, currently performing at I love you, by Diane Kurys, and The richest woman in the worldby Thierry Klifa, welcomes us into his closed, book-filled office. At 55 years old, one champion director has every intention of making it last as long as possible.
I won’t get there…
…If I weren’t the product of a family consisting of many outcasts. This is what most strongly defines my identity. Exile, while bourgeois, implies flight, fear, and above all the obligation to adapt. Adaptation is in my DNA. To be able to change a country, culture, environment requires a great spirit of openness to the world. And what is cinema if not a view of the world?
Where does your family come from?
On my mother’s side, I had a Russian grandfather who fled the Soviet revolution and married my grandmother, a Jew from Egypt whom she knew at physics and chemistry school in Paris. This White Russian came from a large family from St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg. He is very integrated and speaks perfect French. He swears he is not Jewish even though his mother’s name is Cohen. He forced my grandmother to wear a yellow star. He had a legalistic side, like many others, he thought that France would never harm the Jews of his country, that they would be protected. My grandmother quickly tore off her yellow star, she got a fake letter and fled to nearby Evian, in Haute-Savoie. He stayed like that, he wasn’t deported. After the war, she enrolled her two daughters in the catechism, but much later, when my grandfather left her, she returned to Judaism with great intensity. At the age of 70, he enrolled at Langues O (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations)learned Hebrew and bought an apartment in Jerusalem. He is a psychologist, my mother became a psychologist at the age of 40, after raising us.
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