Interview with Thomas Trichet, director of Le taxi de Sun City [The Sun City Taxi] How did you come up with the main character’s repressed desires? Did you do research into psychological disturbances? The obsessing and ruminating of Charles, the main character, is based on a mental illness called the “phobia of committing impulsive acts”, which is a fear of giving in to […]
Interview with Antoine Cuevas, director of Je vais là-bas aussi Where did you get the inspiration for Je vais là-bas aussi? The scenario was written for the 5×2 competition organized by GREC, France 2 Shorts and the cinematheque in Grenoble. You have to write a mini-series of five 2-minute episodes with the requirement that you use the same setting for all the episodes. […]
Interview with Lawrence Valin, director of The Loyal Man Why did you decide to set the film within a network of traffickers? I wanted to tell the story of the lives of these young people who are locked in a system, cut off from their families, whose only reference point is their work. Did you do prior research into mafia circles and their […]
Interview with Bérangère McNeese, director of Matriochkas What were you looking for in the toxic relationship between an immature mother and a young girl with no bearings? I wanted to talk about motherhood and mothers in the way that I see them so often around me: not necessarily as symbols or figures, but as humans, human beings who clumsily do the best they […]