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
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.
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.
gay one-day problem
Because if I were gay, [and] I'm not gay yet — maybe one day — but if I were gay, I'd like to see movies where homosexuality isn't always a problem.
students
I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.
character love-is risk
Since I knew I was going to make a film that was purely about emotions, and I knew that I ran the risk of being accused of amnesia relating to the social film, to prevent this I decided it would be good to have characters who were on the margins of society. These are characters for whom love is really the only way to know that they're alive.
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!"