On the third day of the 19 edition of the international Marrakech film festival, the notorious French director Leos Carax met the Marrakchi audience to have a conversation about his brilliant career and award-winning movies.
Carax said that cinema is all about encounters, “I was lucky as a young filmmaker to meet the right people.”
Leos is known for making movies once every 10 years.
When asked by the moderator about the process of making his first movie, the 61-year-old director that he totally forgot!
“I started doing cinema when I was discovering it,” said the director. “But I was a bit of an imposter since I never went to film school.”
Carax bases his filmography on emotions, heavy complex emotions.
He admitted that he has a thing for night scenes because it’s less distracting.
After watching a clip from “Les Amants du Pont-Neuf”, a very problematic movie of his that got postponed many times for various reasons, the moderator explained that Carax had to construct some of the biggest movie decors ever for this movie and recreated a large representation of Paris.
“Les Amanats du Pont-Neuf” used diverse music from all over the world, ever by the Arab singer Fairouz.
The movie eventually resumed production despite the endless distressing problems it had, and it is now a French classic.
After showing clips from his latest movie, ‘Annette’, the director explained why he cast Adam Driver alongside academy award winner, the French actress Marion Cotillard.
“Well he is huge,” said the director, “I saw him in a series once, around 10 years ago, and said what is this creature?”
Adam Driver is what Carax calls “L’homme singe”, the monkey man; he said that it was nice seeing a monkey man that he wanted to film.
“Annette” was Carax’s first movie where English is the spoken language.
The musical was challenging for him because he has always wanted to make a movie of this genre yet always hesitated since he is far from being a music composer.
“I am no composer and I didn’t even know how to talk to one!”
Even when it comes to the original film score, he never used it until his fourth movie.
Carax’s answered a question that the whole world looks forward to knowing the answer to: When is his next movie coming out?
He admitted that he has an idea but it was far from being executed.
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