Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ? (1982)

• 56%
• 1982
• Drama
• Charles Aznavour
• Nicole Garcia
• Francis Huster

In making this film about a director who is presently working on an autobiographical movie, real-life-director Elie Chouraqui has played on a Jewish cultural theme (the "reel" director is Jewish) and the intermixing of 1960s movie-making-techniken. In the film, director David is in his 30s and his autobiography brings in details about his growth to adulthood -- his early life along the seacoast in Normandy, his eltern, his education, and in the present, his sister and her husband, and a few of his own lovers. Visions of the past enhance the events of the moment, such as in the scene of David 's mother' s death. In the end, viewers may be able to answer the question posed by the title -- "What makes David run?