Thierry Nouel

L'Entretien (avec Johan van der Keuken)

During the shooting of this film, four long interviews were recorded by Thierry Nouel, marking out the different stages of the life and work of the Dutch director. Johan van der Keuken analyzes the relationships between art and reality, morality and the political, gives his conception of exchanges and conflicts between interiority and the outside world. He explains with precision this research which goes at all to the intimate, and which did not progress without rejections and moments of doubt. Shortly before his death, he had reviewed this document and wanted it to be shown as such, in its unedited state.

Johan van der Keuken

Precise portrait of the Dutch film-maker best known internationally - apart from Paul Verhoeven. Nouel chose beautiful and eloquent pieces from throughout the oeuvre of Van der Keuken and allowed the maestro to describe in clear French what moves him. He followed him to the Paris of his apprenticeship, where he learned film-making and the meaning of political commitment.