Steven Spielberg: “I stayed very close to my childhood”

Steven Spielberg has always said that there is a trace of his childhood in each of his films. Well, his childhood is now translated into film. At 76, the most famous of filmmakers is finally told in the first person. Renamed Sammy Fabelman (“the man-fable” instead of “the mountain-game”, spielberg in French), here he is from his 5 to his 19 years. The birth of his passion for cinema in front of “Under the biggest marquee in the world”, by Cecil B. DeMille, of which he obsessively recreates the scene of a railway accident with his electric train then with his father’s Super 8 camera, the shooting of his amateur films, moving from one region to another in the United States, ordinary anti-Semitism…

A love letter to his parents, “The Fabelmans” is above all an ode to his mother (played by Michelle Williams), a classical pianist who put away her ambitions as a concert performer to raise her children, to whom Spielberg owes his sensitivity as an artist. With her husband (Paul Dano), adorable nerd, computer pioneer (the other side of the director of “Ready Player One”), she formed a loving couple but plagued by a painful secret that will lead to divorce.

Thus, in the modest tone of a family chronicle, luminous and deceptively light, “The Fabelmans” sheds precious light on all of Spielberg’s work and on the man behind it. Because beyond the inventor of the blockbuster, the Oscar-winning filmmaker (“Schindler’s List”, “We must save the