Film questions, Nicolas Saada probes the doubts of creation

In this new volume, for the author, it is both a collection of memories and a sum of possibilities that cinema always needs. “Music inspires images, and images inspire music,” says Dario Argento, who sees sound as a symbiotic organism.

extract from cinema questions by Nicolas Saada

Nicolas Saada is a film director and screenwriter (espions, Taj Mahal, Thanksgiving, Le Facteur humain). A former contributor to Cahiers du Cinéma and many other publications, he hosted a film music program on Radio Nova (Nova fait son cinéma) and worked with Pierre Chevalier on Arte between 1992 and 1998.

In this second volume of “Questions de cinéma,” after a first installment that is a goldmine for cinephiles and cinema students, Nicolas Saada continues to gather interviews conducted with directors, technicians, musicians, and actors between 1986 and today. Some were previously unpublished – Abel Ferrara, Maurice Jarre, Ennio Morricone, Agnès Varda.

Destined as much for those who would like to make films as for those who already do, this book can be used as a manual, to be annotated or dog-eared, to fully enjoy a raw material presented without any particular hierarchy.

Jane Campion rubs shoulders with Abel Ferrara, Tsui Hark converses from a distance with Agnès Varda, and a whole art is revealed to the reader.

Through a series of remarkably dense interviews, Nicolas Saada offers an immersion into the invisible layers of cinema, and the uncertainties linked to creation itself, where the stakes between technique, intuition, and vision are intertwined.