VENICE 2021: The French casting director tells us about fulfilling a lifelong dream by calling the shots on a film set, and how grief, desire and spending a night with a girl in Paris contributed
Categoria: interviews
Interview: Laurent Cantet • Director of Arthur Rambo – “I didn’t want the film to be a trial, but everyone has their own inner convictions” – Toronto 2021 – Platform
The French filmmaker explores the violent era of social media through the story of a young and popular novelist who suffers a vertiginous fall from grace
Interview: Fabrice Du Welz • Director of Inexorable – “I tried not to play the artist too much with this film, in order to construct a thriller, pure and simple” – Toronto 2021 – Special Presentations
The Belgian director spoke to us about this new film which is very much in keeping with his previous work, but which also breathes fresh air into his cinema by exploring the huis clos form
Interview: Csilla Kató • Artistic director, Astra Film Festival – “Documentary is cinema’s most democratic genre” – Astra 2021
The festival is currently unfolding online until Sunday, following a physical edition held between 5-12 September, whose strengths and challenges we discussed with its artistic director