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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Jessica Hausner, director of the film Little Joe.

Jessica Hausner decided to have her new film in English, because of the story (a futuristic timeless science fiction story about plant breeders and new species), but to play with genre rules, as well. She explains it with details in our talk with her at the Cannes Festival.

Little Joe: Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. She has engineered a very special crimson flower, remarkable not only for its beauty but also for its therapeutic value: if kept at the ideal temperature, fed properly and spoken to regularly, this plant makes its owner happy. Against company policy, Alice takes one home as a gift for her teenage son, Joe. They christen it ‘Little Joe’ but as it grows, so too does Alice’s suspicion that her new creations may not be as harmless as their nickname suggests.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Udo Kier, actor of the film Bacurau.

Udo Kier is among the lead characters of a weird ensemble film Bacurau, in competition at the Cannes Festival. In our talk he tells us about being involved in the film, his first impression of Brazil and the never-ending learning craft of acting.

Bacurau: With Bacurau, Kleber Mendonça Filho leaves behind the town of his birth, Recife, and explores the poor and isolated region of Sertao do Serido, accompanied by his production designer, Juliano Dornelles. The hardship of living off the land there has produced inequalities historically. Set in a near future, where the archaic and the hyper-modern merge, the film tells the story of the residents of Bacurau, who have just lost their matriarch, Carmelita, at the age of 94. In the depths of their bereavement, the residents realize that their village has suddenly disappeared from the map.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Andreas Horvath and Patricia Planik, director of the film Lillian.

Andreas Horvath, director, and Patricia Planik tell us the story behind Lillian, an unexpected road movie, in a way, that is inspired by the real story of a woman named Lillian who left USA on foot, in late 1800, to go back to her home in Russia. The preparation for the film has been a road trip that Horvath and Planik did for 8 months following the trails that the original Lillian walked, through different American states till Alaska, where she disappeared. An intense demanding experience for Patricia too, but also an enriching one, as she tells in this interview.

Lillian, an emigrant stranded in New York City, decides to walk back to her native Russia. She resolutely starts out on the long journey. A road movie straight across the USA into the freezing temperatures of Alaska. The chronicle of a slow disappearance.

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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Levan Akin, director of the film And Then We Danced.

Levan Akin is a Georgian director living in Sweden. With And Then We Danced, screening in the Quinzaine des Réalizateurs – The Director’s Fortnight at the 72nd Festival de Cannes, he manages to represent the conflict within his country of origin as the Georgian dance represents the “old” and the burgeoning love between two of the dancers would represent the new. Through the story of young LGBT+ people and their struggles Levan Akin use the occasion for showing the history and situation of Georgia today. On the International day against homophobia, And Then We Danced is not only an emotional and passionate love story but it also a very necessary film to show Georgia and the whole world that Love is Love.

And Then We Danced: Merab has been training since a young age at the National Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner Mary. His world is suddenly turned upside down when the charismatic and carefree Irakli arrives and becomes both his strongest rival and desire. In this conservative setting Merab finds himself having to break free and risk it all.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Midge Costin, director of the film Making Waves: the Art of Cinematic Sound.

Director Midge Costin has been a Hollywood sound editor for over two decades and in Cannes Classics at the 72nd Festival de Cannes she brings the audience’s attention on the hidden power of sound design with Making Waves: the Art of Cinematic Sound, a documentary on the secrets of this field with interviews to famous directors like George Lucas, David Lynch, Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford and Ang Lee. Midge Costin explains the origins lf the film and the structure she used to highlight the importance of the sound art in cinema. The director comments on whole streaming platform VS cinema theatre’s hot topic and surprisingly enough, underlines how the sound department has not been affected by this change in a film’s fruition.

Making Waves: the Art of Cinematic Sound reveals the hidden power of sound in cinema – and our lives. Through film clips, interviews and verité footage, the film captures the history, impact and creative process of this overlooked art form through the insights and stories of legendary directors such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Barbra Streisand, Ang Lee, Christopher Nolan, Sofia Coppola and Ryan Coogler, and the sound men and women with whom they collaborate. Few have “ears to hear” or comprehend the emotional storytelling impact sound plays in so- called visual media. Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas have both declared that “sound is 50% of the movie” with Spielberg saying “our ears lead our eyes to where the story lives.” In Making Waves, we see and hear from the key players of sound design – including multi-Oscar winners Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now), Ben Burtt (Star Wars) and Gary Rydstrom (Saving Private Ryan) – who, in pursuing their art and desire to push the medium, are the very people who will go down in the history of cinema as developing sound into the immersive storytelling force it is today. Audiences will discover many unsung collaborators for the key creative artists they are, in a domain that has for too long been characterized as “technical.”

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Ira Sachs, director of the film Frankie.

We talk with Ira Sachs in Cannes, whose new film Frankie is in the official competition at the festival, about the way of writing films and the importance of perspective, for the director and the audience as well. An interesting chat about moviemaking and how to deal with of ensemble films, from the director’s point of view.

Frankie, a famous French actress, learns that she only has a few months to live. For one final family vacation, she gathers everyone together in Sintra, Portugal.

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PODCAST | Simone Soranna interviews Song Kang Ho and Lee Sun Kyun, actors of the film Parasite.

Song Kang Ho and Lee Sun Kyun are the main actors in Bong Joon Ho’s film Parasite, one of the best movies presentend in competition here in Cannes. They told us the difficulties of this project and the importance that this movie has for their lives as Korean people.

Parasite: Ki-taek’s family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki-woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid tutoring job, spawning hopes of a regular income. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads to the Park family home for an interview. Arriving at the house of Mr. Park, the owner of a global IT firm, Ki-woo meets Yeon-kyo, the beautiful young lady of the house. But following this first meeting between the two families, an unstoppable string of mishaps lies in wait.

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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Luca Guadagnino, director of the film The Staggering Girl.

It could be actually hard to believe but the 72nd edition of Festival De Cannes is director Luca Guadagnino’s first time at the Festival ever. In Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, he presents The Staggering Girl, a medium-length film starring Julianne Moore and realized with the participation of Maison Valentino’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli. As it goes through the chapters of a woman’s life by moving back and forth along her memories, her past and her present, the film is a fusion of creative visions and languages, the fashion and couture narrative language and the cinematographic one. Luca Guadagnino explains how he worked on blending these two visions and how he worked on get into the protagonist’s life and memories in only 35 minutes.

The Staggering Girl: The cinematographic language and the language of Couture simultaneously follow an intimate story line, made of symbols, gestures and images. Moving between Rome and New York, the movie narrates the strength of a blood relationship between two women who have come to a day of reckoning with themselves, through a diachronic and introspective overview.

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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Jérémy Clapin, director of the film I Lost My Body.

I Lost My Body starts with a hand being cut out of a body and trying desperately to reconnect with the rest of itself. That’s the starting point of Jeremy Clapin’s first feature film, in competition at the Semaine de la Critique of 72nd Festival de Cannes. Clapin describes the initial idea of the film and the inspiration he found in the 2006 novel by Guillaume Laurant, Happy Hand. I Lost My Body starts in a splatter and dark way but makes clear soon enough that is an animated tale with many layers. It is a film about processing loss, a love story, a coming of age and also manages to investigate on the possibility of patching up all the pieces a person lost along the way to try and become whole again.

I Lost My Body: A cut-off hand escapes from a dissection lab with one crucial goal: to get back to its body. As it scrambles through the pitfalls of Paris, it remembers its life with the young man it was once attached to… until they met Gabrielle.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Danielle Lessovitz, director of the film Port Authority.

Danielle Lessovitz worked years behind this project. The love story she chooses to narrate among kiki balls in an unusual New York is a universal story that stays away and does not consider gender issues, but just feelings and people. A brave and necessary film in an era of narrow minds and bigotry.

Port Authority: On the steps outside New York City’s dizzying central bus station, Port Authority, a girl named Wye vogues with her siblings. Paul, a young drifter, watches her, transfixed by her beauty. After he seeks her out, an intense love soon blossoms. Wye introduces him to the ballroom community, an underground LGBTQ subculture, and to her house, a self-selected chosen family. But when Paul realizes Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his feelings for her and the social forces that seek to rupture their bond.

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