Twice a month, a public figure tells us what they are reading at the moment. This week: author and actor François Létourneau, whose third and final season of This is how I love you has just started on ICI Tou.tv Extra.
Born Standing Up
“It’s a bit like the autobiography of comedian Steve Martin. I think it’s one of the best books I’ve read on show business, on what it’s like to be an artist, and all the work that goes into it. In 1978, he was doing shows and he was at the top; he was the comedian in the United States who filled stadiums. What he did was so brilliant that you might think he was simply a genius. But when you read this book, you see all the years of work and doubt. It’s very inspiring. It came out a few years ago and I’m rereading it because it’s funny, too, and it’s very well written. »
Born Standing Up
Simon & Schuster
224 pages
The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael
” It is Quentin Tarantino who often talks about this film criticism; she is considered the foremost film critic in the United States. She wrote a lot in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s for the New Yorker, then she wrote lots of books. The book is a review of his criticisms through the years. Each review is like a literary object in itself. It’s well written and is truly a reflection on the film. I like to reread his reviews of films that I liked. And it’s also interesting to have the point of view of the time regarding films like ANDby Steven Spielberg, Tootsieby Sydney Pollack, which is one of my favorite films, or Blue Velvet, by David Lynch. »
The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael
Penguin Random House
864 pages
May our joy remain
“ I gave myself this book for Christmas. I find it really very, very well written. It’s not a universe that immediately interests me, the Montreal upper bourgeoisie – I feel a little confused [rires] –, but I really enjoy reading it. I find it fascinating; there are lots of details, we feel that he is inspired by real people, there are people that we can guess, also, he mixes the true and the false. I am reading it with Yoga, by Emmanuel Carrère, which my son gave me. I really liked it The opponent. In this book, he did a yoga retreat and he wanted to write about that, but he had a bit of a psychotic episode and he was diagnosed with bipolar. It’s really interesting. »
May our joy remain
Heliotrope
380 pages