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Director's Statement
In a period obsessed with truth and transparency, I’ve been wanting to do a film about lies. I’ve always found lies to be exciting fodder for storytelling and filmmaking. So I was mulling it over when a friend told me about a play written by Maurice Rostand right afterWorldWar I.
I investigated further and learned that the play had been adapted for the cinema in 1931 by Ernst Lubitsch under the title BROKEN LULLABY. My first reaction was to scrap the idea. How could I top Lubitsch?! But seeing Lubitsch’s film reassured me. It’s similar to the play and takes the point of view of the young Frenchman, whereas I wanted to take the point of view of the young german woman. Lubitsch’s film is beautiful, his direction is admirable and highly inventive as always. But it’s the film of an American director of German descent who didn’t know a second world war was looming on the horizon. My approach, as a Frenchman who did not experience either of those two wars, was obviously going to be different.