Fine Cuts: The Art of European Film Editing

7   François Gédigier

I talked with François over coffee and croisants in a hotel just off the Place d’ltalie in Paris. It was not long after he had cut the controversial film, ‘Intimacy’ for Patrice Chéreau whom he has been editing with since ‘La Reine Margot’.

François Gédigier (Courtesy of François Gédigier)

I was born in Paris in 1957. My father was a commercial salesman in the clothing industry and my mother was a secretary. I have a brother who is three years older than me. He works as a teacher in a centre for young disabled people.

I left school when I was seventeen, a year before the baccalaureate, but from the age of sixteen I was already ...