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CHANCE OR COINCIDENCE Claude Lelouch tells a tale set between truth and falsehood.
More than thirty years after cre- ating perhaps his most indeli- ble movie hit, the double Oscar-winning A Man And A Woman, sixtysomething French director Claude Lelouch comes up with his latest, Chance Or Coincidence, which he has intriguingly dubbed “Three Men And A Woman...”
It’s the fascinating and visually stunning tragicomic tale of beautiful Myriam (played by the real-life Mrs Lelouch, Alessandra Martines), a one-time ballet dancer on a new quest for love and fulfilment after her husband and son are sup- posedly lost at sea.
But what if those deaths were part of an elab- orate hoax? Says Lelouch: “What would you say if, after your death, a genius forger shot a fake Lelouch, pretending that he found one of those two films [Le Propre de L’Homme, in 1960, and La Vie de Château, in 1961] that were supposed to have been destroyed?
“If the film is good, why not? I’d like the idea that seeing such a fake, someone would say, ‘Hey, Lelouch threw masterpieces away.’ However, those two films were very bad. And besides, film is an art that requires the help of so many people that I do not think it would really be possible. But if someone pulled off such a swin- dle, I’d doff my hat to him.”
Co-starring Pierre Arditi, Soutine and Geoffrey Holder, this colourful story of truth and falsehood is set all over the world, from Canada and Mexico to Italy and Turkey, encompassing ravenous polar bears and whirling Dervish dancers.
Director of photography is award-winning Pierre-William Glenn, 56, whose more than 40 fea- tures to date include Truffaut’s Day For Night and Joseph Losey’s Monsieur Klein as well as seven films in collaboration with Bertrand Tavernier, including The Clockmaker Of St Paul, Coup de Torchon and Mississippi Blues. ■
Chance Or Coincidence (Hasards ou Coincidences) was partly originated on Fujicolor Motion Picture Negative. It’s released in the UK later this year
Scenes from Claude Lelouch’s Chance Or Coincidence with Alessandra Matines, Pierre Arditi, Soutine and Geoffrey Holder photographed by Pierre-William Glenn
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