Biography

[on the music in 4 Days in France (2016)] It's my first feature film; before, I had just made a few short movies and a documentary, all of which I made almost completely by myself - the camera, sound. I read about the cost of music in cinema, and in my way of searching for the classical pieces, the fact that those pieces are costless is a given for me. My producer was telling me, "It costs a lot!" I said "No, don't worry," and one day I gave her the list and almost all of the recordings were recorded before '56 or so, so no copyright costs in Europe. She said, "Wow!" There are some exceptions: we had a little money for music, so I could afford one or two specific recordings - for the Rameau piece at the end when they meet, I was happy to be able to get the modern recording. I listen to a lot of classical music, and a lot of classical music from before the '50s or '60s, so they are free. [2017]

One of the great directors I admire is Éric Rohmer, and it's not only because of his voice. It's also because of his way of producing his own movies, and the economy and cost of every meal, every person on the crew, etc. He had all those things in mind... [2017]

[on shooting 4 Days in France (2016) on the road] We had, on the whole, 29 shooting days, including the trip, over 6,500 kilometers of France. So shooting in Châteauroux [just] for this character lost a day or half a day, so I had to make a compromise, but there were very few. The unit production manager, Aurelie Delvenne, was the woman who made all these roads possible. (...) This girl, Aurelie and her crew, drew lines on these maps, so Auvergne, Provence, Cote d'Azur, Paris etc. - they just did what was written in the script. Amongst those 100 little roads, they said "This one may be a money problem," because it's very far away or security problems, or refusal from the authorities, because we had to ask for almost every one. But sometimes we didn't ask. For example, in France to shoot on the motorway, I think we must spend 6,000 Euros. So, we said, "We'll just do it like that [without permission]." But every road was in the script, and we checked them one by one. [2017]