All language subtitles for Army Of Shadows Extras - Jean-Pierre Melville, Filmmaker_track3

Sunday, February 23, 1969,
at 8:00 a.m.

The Place Charles de Gaulle
has been cleared for a strange parade.

Army of Shadows

is the title of
Jean-Pierre Melville's 12th film,

which brings back
some unhappy memories.

Courteline said,

“Unhappy memories! Yet I welcome you.
You are my long-lost youth.”

I no longer have “unhappy memories,”
especially of that time.

Jean-Pierre Melville cherishes
paradox as well as free thinking.

The fact I'm an Alsatian Jew
doesn't mean

I should see what I did
during the war as exceptional.

Many of us had a little
something more to defend.

I'd already fought in the war,

and I'd gotten
a taste for action.

One becomes a fighter,
a Warrior, very quickly.

It takes much longer
to stop being one.

If I was drawn to certain books like
Les enfants terribles

or Léon Morin, prétre,
for example,

after making
I e silence de la mer,

it was because something happens within
these characters that makes them evolve.

Two years after Le samourai,

Jean-Pierre Melville
began shooting Army of Shadows.

One film every two years
is all a director should take on.

More than that is madness.

Melville is the most elusive
of French directors.

I'm a chameleon.

When I work with actors
who like to have fun,

to joke and laugh on the set,

since I'm a chameleon,

I can play along
and even surpass them.

But when I work with actors
who aren't that way,

then I act naturally,
I remain myself,

and I'm not the kind
who's always smiling.

A great director of actors,
he made the following rules:

A character must be created.

You must never play yourself,

wear a fake nose,
nor show yourself bare.

There's no difference between
being behind the camera or in front of it.

I firmly believe that if people
are used to being in the spotlight -

and directors are in the spotlight -

they feel completely at home
behind a camera or in front of it.

It makes no difference.

It's easier being in front
of the camera than behind it.

That much I believe.

With Lino Ventura,

Paul Meurisse
and Jean-Pierre Cassel,

Simone Signorel stars in
Army of Shadows.

But in this case,
isn't the director the real star?

Yet this director, who belongs
to no school, no movement,

and yet has made some
of the best films of his generation,

has a rather cynical opinion
of his an'.

I think art only exists
if the artist is alone,

if the creator is completely
cut off from the world.

That's why cinema isn't an art.

Art is when you're alone
in your room at 3:00 a.m.,

writing a scene.

Yes, that might be called art.

Yes... “artist. ”

No other word fits
when speaking of Melville.