‘Above all, I love the cinema, which makes me see life better than I see it outside the cinema’. Interview with François Bégaudeau

Abstract

François Bégaudeau is a French writer who also writes literary criticism and, above all, film criticism. He has published numerous novels since Jouer juste in 2003, as well as plays, including La Bonne Nouvelle (2018), and essays, particularly Histoire de ta bêtise (2018). Bégaudeau also (co-)writes comics and feature films from time to time, and has collaborated on several films by Patricia Mazuy. I was able to talk interview him via email about his relationship with cinema and, above all, his “literary cinephilia”. The interview is to some extent related to my article in this issue on Bégaudeau's cinematic materialism, although it covers more aspects. Many thanks to François Bégaudeau for granting us this interview.