It is a falsely ordinary bourgeois building, almost on the corner of Avenue Pierre-Ier-de-Serbie and Avenue Marceau. Ordinary but legendary. Here, at the historic headquarters of Films du Losange in Paris, a Franco-Hungarian woman from Germany reigned over the cream of French auteur cinema for over forty years. It was there, at number 26, a few meters from François Truffaut’s apartment, that Barbet Schroeder and his wife, Bulle Ogier, as well as Jean-Luc Godard and Eric Rohmer, would work, each on their own floor…
“Rohmer took the stairs, and Jean-Luc took the elevator,” recalls a key player at Losange. A great admirer and accomplice of Eric Rohmer and the Franco-Swiss filmmaker Barbet Schroeder, the two historic pillars of the oldest French production company, Margaret Menegoz has worked extensively to develop and consolidate major talents, from Marguerite Duras, Andrzej Wajda, Lars von Trier, to the Austrian director Michael Haneke, whose film “Amour” won the Palme d’Or in 2012… With a single motto: “There is no standard system and no author is like another.”
