00:00Thank you, Sophie, for speaking to CGTN.
00:03You have been the ambassador for this year's Hainan Island International Film Festival.
00:07How do you feel?
00:08Do you have any work plans during the festival?
00:11Kind of, yes.
00:12I have a lot of interviews and masterclasses to do.
00:15I'm enjoying traveling with cinema and meeting other movies.
00:22I'm happy to be part of it.
00:25Your first visit to China was in 1985 with La Boom.
00:29In 2014, you attended the Spring Festival Gala seeing La Vie en Rose.
00:35Could you share your connections with China and what fascinates you the most about Chinese culture?
00:41It just happened.
00:44La Boom was a great success in a lot of countries, especially Asia and then China.
00:55I was invited to come here.
00:57I had no idea of anything.
00:59I just followed the flow.
01:02I got here and I felt good.
01:04People were so welcoming and so nice.
01:08Then we kept in touch.
01:11We grew together, kind of, because I've been around for a while now.
01:17I did other movies that also were very much appreciated here.
01:21I was curious to come here and know more about it.
01:27To me, it's like a natural story, actually.
01:31You were also one of the first French filmmakers to come to China
01:36and boost the Chinese film industry.
01:39How do you see the changes of the Chinese film industry over the years?
01:43We're very fond of Chinese movies in France.
01:49A lot of them are coming to our festivals.
01:53A lot of them are well known all over the world.
01:56Even the most Chinese and historical.
02:00I'm thinking of Assassins, for example, Hu Shaoxian.
02:03It's very like the ancestral part of China.
02:08It has its codes and everything.
02:10But the cinematography is wonderful.
02:13The way he directs actors, the way he sees the movie.
02:18It's like a masterpiece.
02:20You can only be amazed and somehow influence us.
02:26You have been in the film industry for decades from actress and director.
02:31How can you maintain your state at such a high level for so long?
02:35I don't know. I still have a lot to do.
02:38I never watched in the past.
02:41I did what I had to do.
02:43I did my best.
02:45Maybe I could have done better, but I really did my best.
02:50So I look forward, I don't look backwards.
02:54As both an actress and director,
02:57let me comment on yourself.
02:59How do you reflect on your legacy in the film industry?
03:03People very often tell me their stories.
03:06I remember when I was 15 and I saw La Boum.
03:10I was with this guy and he just dumped me.
03:13And then I went on.
03:15Whatever, they tell me their stories.
03:19Because actors, I think,
03:22they print something at a period of time
03:26that is very strong on people's souvenirs.
03:32I started, I was so young.
03:35The print has been made at this time,
03:38when I was like 14.
03:41We all have great memories of our 14 years old.
03:45That's how they're going to remember me, I think.
03:48If they remember me.
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