Claude Goretta directed “L'invitation” in 1973. For filmmaker Lionel Baier, born in 1975, it is like a “travelling companion”, to adapt Serge Daney’s expression. He feels it is definitive proof that a Swiss can be deeply Chekhovian. The young filmmaker goes to Geneva to ask his elder how he achieved the whoosh of water effect in the film, why attention to detail matters so much, and how to film great actors such as François Simon. This encounter with Claude Goretta – but also with Isabelle Huppert, Nathalie Baye, Michel Robin and Frédérique Meininger – leads one of the greatest of Swiss filmmakers to open up about his work.
Lionel Baier
Director, Writer
Adrien Barazzone
Self
Claude Goretta
Self
Elodie Weber
Self
Isabelle Huppert
Self
Nathalie Baye
Self
Cédric Leproust
Self
Frédérique Meininger
Self
Michel Robin
Self
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