Louis Garrel

[toothcrush]

i saw him in 'the dreamers', which kinda creeped me out a bit.. but he looks hot anyways!

 

[Captain_Lydia]

Hot! I love it when the actors I like do roles like this. I want to see the film I've heard it's very good. I really enjoy him as an actor the way he moves and speaks, but I've seen so few of his films. I think he's quite fearless as an actor and that's so rare these days. A lot of the young actors/actresses coming out today are too worried about how they'll look to really be effective.

 

[*ana*]

"Les Chansons d'Amour" interview with Christophe Honoré and Louis Garrel

Captain_Lydia asked me to translate that interview (video) i posted a few pages back. so here it is. i'm a terrible translator, but i think you can have an idea of what they were talking about...

(christophe says the movie's characters live in a form of escapism, they have to deal with their feelings, so at certain moments they stop talking and start singing so that they can express themselves trough the songs...)

louis - i've always had some problems with the french cinema in general, and to talk about it... but it's true that i have no idea... in general, i know that a lot of what's being done nowadays is supposed to make people laugh. i know that this is a trend in the french cinema today. laughter, as frequently heard in the theaters, make us feel confident. there's something in the comic movies that make us feel confident. i have noticed this a lot in the french movies nowadays... in "chansons d'amour", i think christophe's idea was to film paris as it is today, very close to reality - that's the impression i have.

(christophe says he was trying to find actors who could sing - he knew louis could, and he knew him really well so he talked to him about the movie, blablabla... he also says louis's charachter was "built" based on other characters that he had already played before, like jonathan from "dans paris".)

louis - a friend of mine told me it was the first time he saw me playing a character who had a job. and this means my friends already see me as a grown yougster(?). i still don't have a beard, but one day it will grow. *mumbles*
but it's true that this was the first time i played a character who had a job. the other ones were students or they just lived day-by-day (i couldn't find a better way to translate this...).
i went to an audition, and then i worked with the movie composer, alex beaupin, with whom i rehearsed, then we went to the studio where we recorded the songs, really fast.

(christophe talks about trying to make a different kind of musical comedy...he believes this movie integrates tradition (renoir, truffaut, eustache...) with this musical thing - suddenly there's a song that suspends the dialogue. he also says it isn't exactly an homage to jacques demy, because demy was inspired by hollywood musicals, and christophe isn't, at all. there's no dance or anything like that...)

 

[Captain_Lydia]

Oh thank you! I really appreciate this even though it took me ages to say anything. It's been kinda crazy. Great interview. I bought the film but I haven't had a chance to watch it yet. I'm a little nervous for some reason. I just want it to be good.

I tried to give you karma but it won't let me do it anymore.

 

[happycanadian]

does he ever comment on what it was like to film such an intimate scene with another man? i mean, surely there must've been some journalist somewhere who asked him about it...

 

[lmelanie]

i want to run my fingers through his hair (among other other things)

 

[Ella Petrovsky]

he looks like a dark, french Robert Pattinson.

 

[pipoca]

i want to run my fingers through his hair (among other other things)

So do I..

 

[pipoca]

livejournal

 

[Captain_Lydia]

Great pictures. I saw Les Chansons d'amour and I loved it. He is so adorable in that film. I don't think you can fully appreciate him until you see him in action. He's such a natural born performer and you can tell he loves it, just like Eva Green. I like that he's fearless in his roles.

Even though he's got the pout down I wish they'd capture his smile in pictures more. His entire face changes.

 

[user.n.]

the full photos by Hedi Slimane






hedislimane.com/diary

 

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oh my god thank you.

 

[deschanel]

Great picts user.n., thank you.

 

[Captain_Lydia]

Gorgeous pictures thank you so much. He makes smoking look so good.

 

[jacquelyn paige]

I could look at those Hedi Slimane picture for hours. They are some of my favourites of Louis.

 

[pipoca]

ph: PHILIPPE-GARCIA
lt2.fr

 

[beatgobum]

nice find pipoca, that ^ picture is just gorgeous. I loved it!

(brunopress.com)

 

[user.n.]

Les Inrockuptibles N°668



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[user.n.]

MUZE `N°48, Sept. 2008



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[*ana*]

comment j'aimarais mourir? "avec une belle chemise."

i love questionnaire de proust, it's so simple. i'm too sleepy to read the interviews now though. thanks a lot, user.n. he's gorgeous...