Twan Huys watched 'Bernardo Bertolucci & # 39; with & quot; open mouth & # 39; Entertainment

The Rotterdam Filmfestival, where Bertolucci died on Monday in 2013, asked if Huys interested him as a guest for College Tour . "He was a very friendly man, who had a lot of sense to talk about his work," said the presenter. "It was also very nice to prepare the conversation and watch his movies." During the show, Huys regularly added Bertolucci water glass. "He later told me half-badly that there was gin in it and that I was only diluting it."

Bertolucci has given a few more interviews in recent years and decided himself in College Tour opening of business. "He really expressed a wave of indignation in the room when he told it," Huys remembers. None of the editors knew that he confessed his conception and that of Brando . "I also looked with open mouth what he was saying Bertolucci said he would not regret it because it was the right artistic choice: he wanted a genuine reaction." But he still felt guilty of this. "

Wheelchair

As moving as was the turbulence of 2013, the wave of international outrage took place three years later when the fragment landed in Hollywood. "It was a very strange experience that College Tour was suddenly mentioned everywhere," says Huys. "But all this riot is a very good reflection of the reversal of the spirit of the times.In his films, there were more things than anyone in the seventies was awake … Think of the cat that strikes Donald Sutherland to in Novecento at a door or the little boy that he throws at a wall. "

Besides statements on the stage of butter in" Last Tango in Paris Huys can also remember what Bertolucci said about the fact that he was in a wheelchair nowadays. "He said it was very difficult for him," he said. said the presenter. "Bertolucci could no longer make films as before, because you have to be able to watch as a director from the point of view of the camera. And he could not do it anymore: he could not stand or climb anymore. He really liked that. "

Monday evening, in his program RTL Late Night Huys pays attention to the death of the director