The 56-year-old President has been watching entire Alfred Hitchcock and Roberto Rossellini film repertoires night after night obsessively as well as devouring volumes of French literary greats, ''The Daily Telegraph'' reported.
Sarkozy on culture drive ''to prove he''s no lowbrow President but a nascent culture vulture''
London, Jul 20 (PTI) French President Nicolas Sarkozy has embarked on an image makeover drive to prove that he is no lowbrow leader, but a nascent culture vulture, a report said.
The 56-year-old President has been watching entire Alfred Hitchcock and Roberto Rossellini film repertoires night after night obsessively as well as devouring volumes of French literary greats, ''The Daily Telegraph'' reported.
President Sarkozy, long mocked for proudly proclaiming to love Elvis Presley, now holds frequent cultural soir�es at Elys�e Palace in which he seeks to dazzle artiste and actor guests with his new found literary and cinematic prowess.
According to his aides, Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni religiously spend their evenings playing catch up during which the President "consumes culture in an almost obsessively systematic way".
This includes watching 15 Hitchcock films back to back, and reserving the same treatment for Roberto Rossellini, Frank Capra and Ernst Lubitsch as well as Federico Fellini, the report said.
"Just like a revision programme, he functions by author," the British newspaper quoted one exhausted guest as telling French daily ''Lib�ration''.
As for literature, he is said to have digested a volume of six Maupassant works in one weekend, and spends all his spare time perfecting his knowledge of Stendhal, Balzac and other French classics, the report said.
Even in interviews, Sarkozy has started casually dropping references to heavyweight authors from Louis -Ferdinand C�line to Jean-Paul Sartre.
Franz-Olivier Giesbert, a magazine editor and political author recently told ''Le Point'' that the President had dazzled him by quoting at length from a host of authors from Racine to Maupassant.
London, Jul 20 (PTI) French President Nicolas Sarkozy has embarked on an image makeover drive to prove that he is no lowbrow leader, but a nascent culture vulture, a report said.
The 56-year-old President has been watching entire Alfred Hitchcock and Roberto Rossellini film repertoires night after night obsessively as well as devouring volumes of French literary greats, ''The Daily Telegraph'' reported.
President Sarkozy, long mocked for proudly proclaiming to love Elvis Presley, now holds frequent cultural soir�es at Elys�e Palace in which he seeks to dazzle artiste and actor guests with his new found literary and cinematic prowess.
According to his aides, Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni religiously spend their evenings playing catch up during which the President "consumes culture in an almost obsessively systematic way".
This includes watching 15 Hitchcock films back to back, and reserving the same treatment for Roberto Rossellini, Frank Capra and Ernst Lubitsch as well as Federico Fellini, the report said.
"Just like a revision programme, he functions by author," the British newspaper quoted one exhausted guest as telling French daily ''Lib�ration''.
As for literature, he is said to have digested a volume of six Maupassant works in one weekend, and spends all his spare time perfecting his knowledge of Stendhal, Balzac and other French classics, the report said.
Even in interviews, Sarkozy has started casually dropping references to heavyweight authors from Louis -Ferdinand C�line to Jean-Paul Sartre.
Franz-Olivier Giesbert, a magazine editor and political author recently told ''Le Point'' that the President had dazzled him by quoting at length from a host of authors from Racine to Maupassant.
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