Louis Garrel
Louis Garrel
Louis Garrelis a French actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his starring role in The Dreamers, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. He regularly appears in films by French director Christophe Honoré, including Ma mère, Dans Paris, Les Chansons d'amour, La Belle Personne and Non ma fille, tu n'iras pas danser...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth14 June 1983
CountryFrance
thinking people want
I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"
paris snow fake
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 filmed, for streets that have never been filmed because there's a thing about Paris, where it's kind of like a charming music box, this luminous cocoon, like those things that have fake snow in them that you turn upside down.
distance thinking paris
People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.
paris people love-each-other
There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.
fashion character cinema
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.
writing the-end-of-the-day scripts
At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.
jobs lawyer wanted
I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why.
children movie-love way
Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.
emotional sentimental principles
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.
done each-day use
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.
thinking play atmosphere
I think the moment I discovered I definitely wanted to act was when I saw a play alone by myself when I was fourteen. Maybe it was a Moliere play? I discovered the atmosphere of the theater, and I knew I wanted to be an actor.
queens france made
In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.
cities paris people
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."
couple children separation
The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.