Claude Lelouch: “The present is cash”

Installed in his Parisian office, the famous Club 13, surrounded by all his shooting memories, including a fine collection of photos and cameras, Claude Lelouch is like a captain aboard a vessel entirely dedicated to cinema. At 84 years old, fuchsia turtleneck sweater and beautiful chronograph on his wrist, he still sails on sight and still lives his passion with the same enthusiasm, the same feverishness. Always ready to set up a project like throwing the dice on a green carpet. He has a taste for risk and only sees life in the moment, without looking back too much. Since its beginnings, long before the worldwide glory ofA man and a woman, he lives and dreams only for scraps of film, considers his actors as his family and is convinced that a good story is better than the r…