Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficultรฉ d'รชtre, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.
Charlotte RamplingClose girlfriends I don't have necessarily, as an actress. Perhaps there is a thing of competition there, you know, when you're doing the same things, and you're the same age. I could be with younger actors, but woman of my age probably - there is and there isn't, one doesn't like to think of it, but I think there is a sense of competition. Which is good, also.
Charlotte RamplingYou don't need the painful memories, because either you've resolved them. Denying always makes them want to come back. Denial is a mechanism that doesn't work. But allowing them to come back in little by little, those memories, you can begin to be quite comfortable with them, and it's even nice to have that as part of the map of your life.
Charlotte Rampling