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It was La Merveilleuse Vie de Jeanne d’Arc,
a film by Marc de Gastyne that the
Cinémathèque brought back to life in
1986 for the delight of those unfortunates
who weren’t lucky enough to discover love
at first sight in 1927. A loop of Time was
looped that evening at the Palais de Chaillot
when I found myself seated not far from
the charming old lady who would rise to
the public’s applause : Simone Genevois.
And I suddenly felt the wave of emotion that
old lovers feel when chance brings them
together after years of separation. She smiled,
she greeted people, she didn’t know that not
ten yards away there was a stranger who owed
her one of his life’s most rare discoveries, the
discovery of things that quicken the heart.