Paris, 14and arrondissement. We sneak along a tree-lined path. It’s over there on the left, we ring the bell. Géraldine Pailhas receives us at her home, on the occasion of the release of the film Tender and rare and the broadcast of season 2 ofUFO(s) on Canal+, in a space of which it has decided “ every detail »at a time “rigorous and crazy”bathed in light “even when there is none at all”.
The 51-year-old actress talks about her childhood in Marseilles with a father who developed a late taste for art and architecture until he became a gallery owner, the cooking of his maternal grandmother who came from Indochina, his obsession with carrots, his passion for dancing, the shock of discovering the Last Metro of Truffaut andTo our Loves of Pialat, his figuration in the clip Bamboleo of the Gipsy King who launched his career, the filming of Boyher fascination for Charlotte Perriand and Japan, her inclination for androgynous outfits, and her deep love of cinema: ” I can not live without. When I’m not working, I see at least one movie a day. The richest of my relationships go through cinema. »
For three seasons and now every week, producer Géraldine Sarratia has questioned the construction and intricacies of a personality’s taste. Whether they are creators, artists, cooks or intellectuals, they all call upon their childhood memories, all evoke the social and cultural dimension of the construction of a corpus of tastes, of a set of values.
A podcast produced and presented by Géraldine Sarratia (Ideal Genre)
prepared with the help of Diane Lisarelli and Mélissa Phulpin
Directed by: Emmanuel Baux
Music: Gotan Project
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