Claude Lelouch

I remember being a big fan of, because to a kid, that's tremendously interesting.

Some Claude Lelouch movies growing up.

one of which became my favorite, but I saw it as an adolescent, which was Amentenor and Now My Love.

I was a big Francois Truffaut fan, but early Truffaut, like 400 Blows, which, you know, told so much from the perspective of a child and so honestly from the perspective of a child.

So he was kind of a camera assistant, best boy hybrid.

And when Roland served in the French army, he worked as an editor in the cinema department alongside French director Claude Lelouch.

Lelouch directed and Roland edited.

After leaving the army, Roland directed his first short film, Les Immersions, in 1958.

It's so good.

It's Claude Lelouch directed it.

It's this really ambitious romantic film of French gypsy and a thief are drawn to each other without realising they were lovers in a past life.

And Lelouch turned the idea into this huge sweeping meditation on love and fate and memory across time it's really good i've only seen it once because it's really hard to find i think it's on movie but i saw it back in the day when i was probably stealing like just had finished high school and was so moved by it that i've never forgotten it that's my number five okay chris number four

They needed it to fit a standard runtime.

Decades later, Claude Lelouch directs a 1995 version starring Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Then Bille August directs a 1998 film with Liam Neeson as Valjean and Geoffrey Rush as Javert.

And then, of course, the absolute cultural juggernaut, the 2012 Oscar-winning movie adaptation of the stage musical starring Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe.