“I like movies that make you think”

The cinema or the story of a life. How did you get into cinephilia?

Jean-Baptiste THORET : As far as I can remember, I have always watched movies and loved cinema. Long before the word “cinephilia” had any meaning to me. Cinema is a smuggler’s practice, essentially self-taught, even though, like many others, I studied cinema. But most of what I learned was watching movies and reading books. I believe that cinema actually chose me. I learned about the world by watching movies. But there were movies when I was…