Lucas: I initially studied electronics, but soon realised it was not my path. When I was eighteen I was looking for a summer job. I had the idea of working as a projectionist, so I contacted theatres around my hometown in France. I received several positive answers and picked our local theatre, Le Rex, which was closest to my house.
I ended up staying there for a year and I went from being someone who liked movies to a true cinephile. At the time, the American movies we projected were iconic films such as The Shining, The Elephant Man, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ordinary People, Kramer vs Kramer...this gave me the ambition to become more involved in the movie business somehow, somewhere.
I decided to move towards editing. I called CNC [Centre National du Cinéma, an agency of the French Ministry of Culture] to ask for their advice. They said I could start to learn editing by doing an internship in a lab. At the time, because film was predominant, this was the way you learnt the craft. And that is how I ended up at Laboratoires Éclair, after being interviewed by Olivier Chiavassa, head of production. I was really motivated—I even lied about owning a car and about being fluent in English...luckily he took me on board! I started there as an intern in 1983.
So you became a colour timer...
Lucas: While today there are colourists all over the world, at the time this was not a profession people knew much about. As a colour timer, I was working exclusively on prints; this is how the dailies and final grading were done.
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