In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filmed diary. Wherever he goes, he carries his camera with him. He films his life and lives as he films: places, moments, friends, loves, misfortunes.
Editing
Di Domenico sculpts decades of chaos into something almost too personal.
Production
Super 8mm grain that makes Instagram filters weep with inadequacy.
Director
Marc di Domenico
Romain Duris
Charles Aznavour (voice)
Charles Aznavour
Self - Singer (archive footage)
Pierre Roche
Self - Musician (archive footage)
Lino Ventura
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Édith Piaf
Self - Singer (archive footage)
Jacques Pills
Self - Singer (archive footage)
Michèle Mercier
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Anouk Aimée
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Johnny Hallyday
Self - Singer (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Paillard Bolex H-16 camera he used cost roughly two months of a factory worker's salary in 1948—Aznavour bought it with his first real paycheck as a musician.
Aznavour's footage of 1960s Paris predates the 'direct cinema' movement, yet he never trained as a filmmaker—he simply had access and ego decades before smartphones made everyone a documentarian.
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