Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg experienced confinement on two different continents. A strange experience that the director told in an interview with Europe 1.
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Yvan Attal have always formed a couple apart. Whether it is in their various artistic collaborations or their fierce way of remaining independent from one another. And it seems that containment has forced the nature of things. This is what Yvan Attal reveals, in an interview with the show Media Culture, broadcast on Europe 1. The director was promoting his upcoming film, an adaptation of the novel Human things by Karine Tuil, which he is preparing to shoot in Paris.
As he recounts, the pandemic had a serious impact on his life, since his family ended up living in two different cities. Indeed, since 2013, the 55-year-old comedian has made regular trips back and forth between New York – where his partner and his two daughters, Alice, 17 and Joe, 9, live – and Paris, where his eldest son, Ben lives. , 23 years. But due to restricted travel conditions during confinement, Yvan Attal was stranded within the French capital. “Just before confinement, I was in New York with Charlotte and my daughters and I came back to prepare this film by Karine Tuil that I was supposed to prepare March-April and shoot June-July. Boom, we’re confined, so I found myself all alone in Paris, with my son“, says the director at the microphone of Pascale Clark.
“It was a bit long”
Containment suffered? Not that much to believe the companion of Charlotte Gainsbourg. “It was very, very, very strange. But it’s not that bad actually. (…) It was a bit long, but being at your own pace, being able to do a little of the things that you didn’t have time to do all the time …“, continues the director, even if he confides that the period was not easy. “There was calm, that was pleasant, but it was not serene; we still wondered when we were going to get out of that, how long it was going to last, etc.”, he admits. . And to conclude: “But at the same time, I did not have any particular anxiety.” A period that could inspire him to one of his next feature films?
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