at Lumière

PostED ON OCTOBER 18 2022

Viva Mexico !

Alejandro González Iñárritu introduced ‘Bardo, False chronicle of a Handful of Truths’, visibly moved to present his movie in a place as symbolic as the Hangar du Premier-Film. Answering questions from the audience, Iñárritu returned to the particularly personal aspect of his film: "The same story will take a very different turn depending on the point of view adopted. What interests me is not the reality of a situation, but the truth that emerges through the superposition of these points of view.”

The filmmaker followed the screening with the unveiling of the plaque in his name. At midnight all the film's attendees came to join him. Among them were Mexicans who surrounded the director, singing Viva Mexico!

© Jean-Luc Mège Photography

"Louis Malle was twelve years old when his parents sent him to a boarding school near Fontainebleau, run by a priest who was arrested and then deported for being part of the Resistance and having agreed to take in three young Jewish children. The latter were denounced and arrested on 15 January 1944. Louis Malle met with me one day at the Alma brasserie in Paris, where he had just finished a meal with his father, to give me the script of the film, which I read on my way back to Grenoble. I was immediately taken by the story. I didn't have much connection with the Catholic Church, so a friend advised me to go and meet a very famous reverend in Paris who had been a prisoner in Mauthausen. He told me about his own deportation and that gave me a lot of insight into my character.”

Philippe Morier-Genoud (with Irène Jacob), presenting ‘Goodbye, Children/Au Revoir les enfants’ (1988) by Louis Malle, in which he played Father Jean.

© Léa Rener