Hangmen Also Die (1943) by Fritz Lang.
“I am strongly pro-Lang. My bedside film is Hangmen Also Die. I was 15 the first time I saw it at the Cinémathèque, and I’m still watching it regularly. I may have a particular interest for the figure of Evil in cinema, and the film deals with it in the best possible way. It is a film that gathers everything I like in Lang’s cinema, maybe the height of his art as it shows the very calculating, perfectionnist, virulent aspects of his work. I’m a little bit like a son of the Cinémathèque, and if my work mainly consists in watching modern cinema, I remain attached to classics and Hollywood. ”