#french interview

▪ This is a dialogue made by Alberto Moravia to Claudia Cardinale in 1961.

▪ Originally the interview was published in "Esquire" magazine on May 1, 1961 and was later turned into a book for collectors with exclusive photos taken by great Italian photographers: Chiara Samugheo, Carlo Cisventi, Franco Pinna and Tazio Secchiaroli.

▪ The first book was published in 1965:

And the second one in 2003:

Photos during Moravia's interview with Cardinale:

~/And so as not to go on too long, I'm going to publish the interview with photos of Claudia Cardinale this week, so stay tuned !😊💖/~

Fantastinet: About your show yesterday, how was it for you?

We loved it. My guitarist thought that was the best show we ever played and it was his favorite show. And I thought the crowd was just great because I’m always kind of split when I’m up there because I want people to have a good time. So, I’m goofing around up there and I’m trying to get people to stand up and sing along, clap, whatever. But I also want them to listen to the music. I think the lyrics and the songs stand up, and I got the feeling like I was getting both last nights. Usually, I get one or the other. Like people are listening and they’re not kind of grooving or they’re just partying. And last night I felt like they were partying, but they were listening. And for me, that’s perfect.

We enjoyed it.

I think Paris fans, it’s different than other fans. They really appreciate the artist. So, there’s a person up there that does a lot of different things. And there’s just a good time. Like when we played last time, it had that same feel.

Plus, I have a song. I wrote a song about Sacré Coeur.

Taron Egerton et Paul Walter Hauser pour Serieously

I don't know about that, I think there are many many reasons to go for Paris and Rome if you wanna drop locations in your songs. I for one don't think it's literal, I don't think he was writing it when he was doing the European leg of his tour in between Paris and Rome and would be going home in 2 weeks you know, but I also don't think he'd be cherishing a moment during an interview from a decade ago to the point where he'd put that into a song like that. There's loads of interest in France and its culture as well as Italy with him, and beyond that just what it represents, to quote fetus Harry, the city of luv. I think both Rome and Paris are, just like both NY and LA can be used as mentions for wanting to be famous and be somebody and such in music, pretty solid ways to describe something romantic. (and of course the reason these fetus clowns picked them as romantic cities in the first place, we're going in circles again) But then there's also both a mention of Rome (paired with amsterdam) and some french in Joni Mitchell's Carey which to me he clearly took loads of inspiration from for Canyon Moon.

I don't know if there's much to analyse there in these early days interviews lol, but this does make me think of that one time Tanned AF 2015 Harry said that famous sentence once again and then gave Louis a fking look like

his face as a reaction to seeing louis' face I mean really what sentence means to them just

ARE YOU SERIOUS BRO

and then a couple of seconds later we cut to the other camera and Louis is just there like trying to hide his fucking grin

OOP CAMERAS I JUST MADE OUR LITTLE FRENCH LIL INSIDE JOKE LOVE DECLARATION OOP

and then he just keeps focusing on louis, once they find the warmth in each others eyes no matter how many cameras are on them it's just domestic larry in their own bubble central and they just can't get out they're just stuck there, just look (also lol @ liams lil slap)

Not to mention that's the same interview with that whipped the wind makes nice waves right after or the sensual french my fav moment right before. Were they just too tired here to pretend? Were they just too comfortable? Whatever it was I'm glad it was released