The Vincent |
CINE TELE REVUE MAGAZINE June 17, 1993 |
Love is stronger than love at first sight...It has always been like that. Love charms, worries, frees the fantasies of the most timid, encourages men and women to follow their craziest impulsions, multiplies their rage and their feelings by ten. Writers can make stories, courtships and betrayals even more palpitating. Novelist Alexandre Jardin has written about love, about this force of attraction, sentimental or sexual, pushing two human beings to a paroxysm. The result is a great romantic love story called Fanfan. Sophie Marceau and Vincent Perez had to be free from all prejudgments in order to offer the viewer the perfect image of an irrepressible couple. The choice of the director (his first film) was not left to chance. Beautiful and sexy, Sophie Marceau, the star of Amour braque and the romantic Letudiante, can really charm the man whose talent recently burst forth in Indochine. Vincent Perez will go on to Queen Margot. Isabelle Adjani will fall in love with him after Catherine Deneuve.
Together throughout their irresistible passion, far from the violence often found in movie theatres nowadays, they look at the world around them in a modern and right way. Their share the same age, beautiful looks and endless charm that makes everyone dream. They speak freely like two allies. Is love truth or illusion? Vincent: Love is more and more important in
our society because youll find it less and less. One speaks a lot about couple
problems and it is also a source of income - look at those TV programs! TV is
interesting as it mirrors our society. Nowadays one can see true couples trying to solve
their problems on TV! But we are all looking for true love, even though fear does have an
influence on us. All religions come from our fear, and I think this is a mistake as true
philosopy can only come from our inner self and not from outside us. We grow up in a
society that takes us apart instead of showing us we are all part of the same unit. When I was a kid, I fell in love very easily, but they were stories that I invented myself. In fact, I was very catholic. I needed to fall in love in order to suffer a little, in order to show myself that I was alive. I often say that a woman can reveal a man. I love strong women who leave an impression. Sophie: Love is to feel good with someone, without needing to talk or do do something. It is not about love at first sight, not about courting. The most magical part is to stay together for a long time.
Do you believe in eternal love? Vincent: When one falls in love, one tries to find a solution to the declining passion. This is the theme of the movie. And with passion, I also mean possession. The decline of passion makes us sad because we want to be the masters of our passions. We want to master them until we are not interested in them anymore. Because possession is winning. When love fades, it is easy to go from the love feeling to hate. We should analyze reality around us, analyze the way people divorce. I thought I was untouchable, and then my parents divorced one year ago! Around me I see kids of divorced couples, and often these separations are done in a bad way. Why? Because of passions decline. In the past, people would listen less to their passions. They were brought up in a more rigorous way. Sophie: Two authorities facing each other create trouble. One cannot have two stars shining under the same roof. To be sweet and subdued is a feminine quality. Why not give in? I am not in favor of tolerance where each one does what he/she wants. Love has to be difficult and demanding. I do not like to be left alone. We all hope it will work out forever but I try never to count on this as a superstition. We humans are strange. It is very difficult to foresee our changes. Scientific research has demonstrated that after four years the mutual desire between a man and a woman disappears. Its biological. Of course, sex is not the only important thing, but still
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