Laurent Heynemann said : “When you have such a strong character, you’re pretty sure there’s a movie behind it,”

timesofisrael Saturday, April 18, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT

Laurent Heynemann said : “I was looking for someone who could modernize Janot, give her an active and energetic tone,” “When she acts, it feels like she’s grabbing the movie and I love it”

timesofisrael Saturday, April 18, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT

Laurent Heynemann said ( about Leon Blum ) : “my favorite scenes are the ones that show the intimacy of Janot and Léon”

timesofisrael Saturday, April 18, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT

Laurent Heynemann said ( about Leon Blum ) : “There was even a version which began with the death of Janot — like in ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’” “Another began with the return of Léon Blum in France in 1945, but we realized that the scenario needed to be articulated around the romantic relationship, and not only on the historical reconstruction”

timesofisrael Saturday, April 18, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT

Laurent Heynemann said ( about Leon Blum ) : “I hope that Jeanne’s constant impulse for Léon, this slightly crazy, undivided monomania, speaks well of the type of romantic relationship between these two characters,”

timesofisrael Saturday, April 18, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT

Laurent Heynemann said ( about Leon Blum ) : “Léon Blum was a great victim of French anti-Semitism in the 1930s,” “Insulted, physically assaulted, he always claimed that he was French, republican, atheist, socialist and Jew”

timesofisrael Saturday, April 18, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT

Laurent Heynemann said ( about Leon Blum ) : “had the benefit of [echoing] something Janot might have said about Léon,”

timesofisrael Saturday, April 18, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT

Laurent Heynemann said : “When you have such a strong character, you’re pretty sure there’s a movie behind it,”

timesofisrael Saturday, April 18, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT

Laurent Heynemann said : “I was looking for someone who could modernize Janot, give her an active and energetic tone,” “When she acts, it feels like she’s grabbing the movie and I love it”

timesofisrael Saturday, April 18, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT

Laurent Heynemann said ( about Leon Blum ) : “my favorite scenes are the ones that show the intimacy of Janot and Léon”

timesofisrael Saturday, April 18, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT

Laurent Heynemann said ( about Leon Blum ) : “There was even a version which began with the death of Janot — like in ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’” “Another began with the return of Léon Blum in France in 1945, but we realized that the scenario needed to be articulated around the romantic relationship, and not only on the historical reconstruction”

timesofisrael Saturday, April 18, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT

Laurent Heynemann said ( about Leon Blum ) : “I hope that Jeanne’s constant impulse for Léon, this slightly crazy, undivided monomania, speaks well of the type of romantic relationship between these two characters,”

timesofisrael Saturday, April 18, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT

Laurent Heynemann said ( about Leon Blum ) : “Léon Blum was a great victim of French anti-Semitism in the 1930s,” “Insulted, physically assaulted, he always claimed that he was French, republican, atheist, socialist and Jew”

timesofisrael Saturday, April 18, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT

Laurent Heynemann said ( about Leon Blum ) : “had the benefit of [echoing] something Janot might have said about Léon,”

timesofisrael Saturday, April 18, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT