Fresh air.

One of the things we try to avoid in interviews for GC is the standard junket effluvia such as "What was it like working with...?" which inevitably leads to pained and painful replies hinging on the words "great" and "a real privilege" or any other question that might get a mention of a character's "journey." With a few welcome exceptions, links to interviews elsewhere around here are usually brief simply because, well, you've read one... But how's this for an opener:

Ferenc Varga for Filmklub: "Most of these omnibus-films that look interesting beforehand turn out to be pretty horrible. Why do you think Paris, je t'aime works and the others don't?"

Olivier Assayas: "I'm not so fond of Paris, je t'aime. To me a lot of the stuff in the film is very conventional and I'm not so fond of the postcard side of Paris it presents. I'm perfectly okay with being part of it but I can't say that the film is some kind of spectacular achievement."

Merci.

Posted by dwhudson at September 27, 2006 8:19 AM