All about BHL
1997
1995 to 1999
Co-written with Jean-Paul Enthoven, Lévy’s first fiction film, Le Jour et la Nuit [Night and Day] is filmed in Mexico starring Alain Delon, Arielle Dombasle and Lauren Bacall, among others. Touching on themes of passion, art, and literature, it is included in the official selection of the 1997 Berlin Film Festival but is a resounding critical and commercial failure.
After the film’s “flop,” Bernard-Henri Lévy leaves for Tangiers where he writes the most personal of his books, Comédie [Grasset], in which he self-deprecatingly mocks what he refers to as his “puppet”, serving up biting self-criticism of “BHL”. Comédie is also a lucid analysis of the “society of the spectacle” and of the Gary/Ajar affair. In this moving confession, the author rips off the mask. “Self-portrait, not self-fiction,” he says. Not a putting on stage, but a putting into question.

(Français) Le 20 avril 1981...
(Français) BHL invité au Petit Journal de Noël, de Yann Barthès, Canal +
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