Camping: The Despised Film That Became a Cult Classic! Fabien Onteniente Faces Denis Carreaux
Fabien Onteniente tells the backstory of Camping, his father, and his doubts as a popular filmmaker.
What is said in the show
Fabien Onteniente, director of Camping, Jet Set, Disco and Turf, presents his autobiography "Alors, on n'attend pas Fabien ?". He explains that the book was born out of his mother Alphonsine's move, at age 95, to a nursing home, and the discovery of family archives. He looks back on his first contact with cinema in the Paris suburbs, on meeting Franck Dubosc in a nightclub in Deauville, and on writing the film Camping, inspired by Michel Lang's L'Hotel de la plage. He discusses the class contempt his films have faced, the role of the audience versus the critics, and his unease with success and award ceremonies. He talks about his quiet, melancholic father, the notebooks of film courses discovered after his death, his relationship with Mathilde Seigner, his period of excess in Ibiza, and the call from Claude Berry that pulled him out of a rough patch. He describes an unrealized film project with Jean-Paul Belmondo, his ties to the Basque Country, and announces his next film, Rando, about hiking in the Cantal.
Chapters
- 0:00Introduction and book title
- 6:02Meeting Dubosc and the birth of Camping
- 8:58Critics, class contempt and the audience
- 15:30Pile ou Face segment: won, lost
- 38:00Father, childhood and discovering cinema
- 46:00Success, excess and Claude Berry
- 50:00Impostor syndrome and melancholy
- 53:50His mother Alphonsine
- 50:30Project with Belmondo and the film Rando
- 55:00Jacques Martin, Coluche and defining figures
Key moments
« It was a bunch of friends laughing together and I thought to myself, this is a great job because they're having a good time. »
Fabien Onteniente · at 5:38
« If adventure is dangerous, routine is deadly. So I went toward adventure. »
Fabien Onteniente · at 19:30
« That desert was broken by a voice, a call from Claude Berry who said: I know you're not doing well, come see me. »
Fabien Onteniente · at 36:55
« My mother was my first audience. This woman with boundless energy read Point de vue Image du monde. »
Fabien Onteniente · at 46:49
« I only listen to sad songs. I listen to Brel, Ferre, Aznavour. I listen to everything that is sad. »
Fabien Onteniente · at 41:13