in conversation with CARL WILDMAN
The creator of ' poetic realism ' in the cinema-who began his career as a director and screen playwriKht in the 1920s with Paris Qui dort and the film Entr'acte ia the Picabia-Satie ballet Reláchetalks about him making in the silent days. cineasts' debts to the Lumiere brothers and especially Méliès, the sudden technical advances of the past. and what can be envisaged for the future.
René Clair's first great success in England Sous les toits de Paris is now showing in London, together with his latest film Les Fêtes galantes.