Interrupted Memories by Bertrand Tavernier (.ePUB)
File Size: 0.66 MB
Interrupted Memories by Bertrand Tavernier
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 0.66Mb
Overview: Bertrand loved to write. He needed to think about his memoirs, and you now hold them in your hands. On screen, the monumental *Voyage à travers le cinéma français* (Journey Through French Cinema), this introspective exploration of his own cinephile past, took time to mature: it was, after all, his responsibility to tell this story, but no doubt the pride of bearing the responsibility was mixed with a restraint that, contrary to appearances, was a striking trait of his character. On the other hand, he made the decision to gather his memories on his own. Was it because he sensed that each new film project would be a difficult battle (like the American screenplay he had just written with Russell Banks and which he couldn’t get made) that this hyperactive man decided to undertake his autobiography—or, to use one of those contemporary understatements that made us both laugh, the “narrative of self”? He would never have given up on making another film, on creating once more. But since he chose to write, this text must be considered part of his body of work.
For in reading the emotions of a young cinephile, the beginnings of a filmmaker destined for greatness, in savoring a text brimming with verve and life from a pure writer, in seeing actors or simply fundamental figures of French cinema brought back to life under his pen, in rediscovering the defense of auteurs and the fight against the colorization of films, the commitments of an artist and political disillusionment, in his way of exhuming the lost world of France from the 1950s to 2000, one can only regret, despite the six hundred pages already filled, that he was unable to choose to put the final touch himself to a confession rarely seen so intense. And having closed the book, we would have liked to tell him that, among the great books written by filmmakers, he had just joined the authors he admired. (Excerpt from the foreword by Thierry Frémaux)
This is an unofficial translation intended for personal, not commercial, use. Translation by Rb.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs Cinema
Free Download links: