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Jeremy Saulnier – director – Green Room

FRED’s Angelo Acerbi interviews Jeremy Saulnier on his latest work, Green Room, which her presented at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs section of the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

Jeremy Saulnier is an interesting individuals. He loves genre movies. He loves all types of music and has played in rock and punk bands before. Therefore, his latest directorial work Green Room was the perfect film for him to make – and for us to enjoy.

GREEN ROOM: A young punk rock band find themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence, fighting for their lives against a gang of white power skinheads intent on eliminating all witnesses.

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Magnus von Horn / Ulrik Munther – filmmaker / actor – The Here After (Efterskalv)

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Magnus von Horn and Ulrik Munther, respectively director and actor of the film The Here After from the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs from the 68th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

Magnus talks with us about the initial inspiration for the film – quite delicate considering the fact that it is his feature directorial debut. He also extensively talks about his non judgmental approach and the process of humanizing the figure of the young man with a criminal past.

Ulrik, on the other hand, talks about how he got involved in the film, and what he thought were the challenges of playing such a delicate role, particularly in his quiet nature.

THE HERE AFTER (EFTERSKALV): When John returns home to his father after serving time in prison, he is looking forward to start his life afresh.

However in the local community, his crime is neither forgotten nor forgiven. John’s presence brings out the worst in everyone around him and a lynch-mob atmosphere slowly takes shape. Feeling abandoned by his former friends and the people he loves, John loses hope and the same aggressions that previously sent him to prison start building up again.

Unable to leave the past behind, he decides to confront it.

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Michel Franco – filmmaker – Chronic

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Michel Franco, director of Chronic, in competition at the 68th edition of Festival de Cannes.

The film’s starting point is Franco‘s personal experience with his grandmother who had a stroke that permanently paralyzed half of her body. He became interested with the life and work of this nurse, who not only took care of her but also became an emotional support to his grandmother and a bridge for communication for her with her relatives.

Tim Roth liked the idea of the film and once he decided to join he also prepared his part by working with real patients and performing the tasks that a nurse normally does.

Michel Franco uses a static camera almost all the time in Chronic so that the portrait of these people’s lives can be as realistic as possible. In the interview we discuss a lot about the reasons behind the choice of the shocking and unexpected ending.

CHRONIC: David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Efficient and dedicated to his profession, he develops strong and even intimate relationships with each person he cares for. But outside of his work David is ineffectual, awkward, and reserved. It is clear that he needs each patient as much as they need him.

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Géza Röhrig – Actor – Son of Saul (Saul Fia)

FRED’s Angelo Acerbi interviews Géza Röhrig, the leading actor of the film Son of Saul (Saul Fia) by László Nemes, in the official competition of the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

Géza tells us how he got ready to play such a delicate role. In this film, he plays a sonderkommando in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He tells us about the challenges that this role posed him and what the role left him with.

SON OF SAUL (SAUL FIA): October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son.

As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child’s body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.

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Roger Deakins – Director of Photography

FRED’s Nicolò Comotti meets the legendary director of photographer Roger Deakins at the 68th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

Deakins was present at the Croisette this year wearing many hats. As the cinematographer of Sicario, the new film by director Denis Villeneuve in Competition at this year’s Festival de Cannes. As a long time collaborator of presidents of the jury, the Coen Brothers. And as a legend in his art, cinematography, for which he receives the 2015 Pierre Angénieux Excellens in Cinematography Award.

This also proved to be a great occasion for FRED Film Radio to talk with him about filmmaking in general, travelling, the good and the bad things about CGI…and Van Morrison’s friends.

SICARIO: In Mexico, sicario means hitman.

In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elite government task force official to aid in the escalating war against drugs.

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Jerome Paillard – executive director – Marché du Film

At the end of this 68th edition of the Festival de Cannes and the 2015 edition of the Marchè Du Film, FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Jerome Paillard, Executive director of the world’s leading film market to gather his first impressions and results of this year’s edition.

Numbers and figures are stable and if last year China was the 5th territory in presence at the market, the 2015 sees Korea among the most present countries.

This year also marked the second year of NEXT, a space dedicated to the front runners of new and alternative business models in film, and it was a success as the NEXT panels and special sessions were the most attended ones by the film industry professionals. The secret of the Marché du Film is to keep track with new models in film’s distribution and business by combining these innovations with the traditional and still effective model.

The tireless Marché du Film’s team is already at work on the 2016 edition and FRED will be there to spread the news on their initiatives and broadcast their events.

MARCHE DU FILM: The Marché du Film is the most important event in the industry and the leading meeting place for 10 000 film professionals, including 3 200 producers, 2 300 theatrical distributors, 1 500 sales agents and 790 festival programmers.

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Joachim Trier – filmmaker – Louder than Bombs

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews filmmaker Joachim Trier, whose film Louder Than Bombs is in competition at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

Joachim Trier tells us about why he decided to shoot Louder than Bombs in english, and discusses with us many aspects of the film and the making of the film, including its themes and its narrative structure.

He also tells us a little bit about the casting – a cast that features names like Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne and Jesse Eisenberg.

LOUDER THAN BOMBS: An upcoming exhibition celebrating photographer Isabelle Reed three years after her untimely death, brings her eldest son Jonah back to the family house – forcing him to spend more time with his father Gene and withdrawn younger brother Conrad than he has in years.

With the three of them under the same roof, Gene tries desperately to connect with his two sons, but they struggle to reconcile their feelings about the woman they remember so differently.

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David Pablos – director – The Chosen Ones (Las Elegidas)

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets David Pablos, in Cannes to present his new film Las Elegidas (The Chosen Ones) in the Un Certain Regard Section.

The film is about a 14 years old girl being forced to enter a prostitution house by her boyfriend’s family. Pablosgot the idea of the film from a script written by Jorge Volpi. He changed some essential elements in the story and wrote another script.

Before writing and shooting The Chosen Ones, Pablos actually talked to women that had gone through this nightmare and found out that most of the time, the girls getting into this trap are the ones longing to be loved because of a sad family situation.

THE CHOSEN ONES (LAS ELEGIDAS): Sofia, 14 years old, is in love with Ulises. Because of him, in spite of him, she is forced into a prostitution ring in Mexico. To set her free, Ulises will have to find another girl to replace her…

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Mélanie Thierry – actress – A Perfect Day

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Melanie Thierry, the youngest among the actors who took part in the ensemble film by Fernando Leon de Aranoa – A Perfect Day. The film is at the Festival De Cannes in the Director’s Fortnight’ section.

Melanie tells us how it was to be on set with two great actors like TIm Robbins and Benicio del Toro and how protective they were in the film and during the shootings.

A PERFECT DAY: A group of aid workers tries to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone: Sophie is a newcomer, she wants to help ; Mambrú has seen it all and wants to go home ; Katya is the former mistress of Mambrú ; Damir wants the war to end, and B doesn’t know what he wants.

Humor, drama, emotion, routine, danger, hope : it all fits in A perfect day.

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Fedja Stukan – actor – A Perfect Day

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Fedja Stukan, actor in the film by Fernando Leon De Aranoa – A Perfect Day, screening at the Festival de Cannes in the Director’s Fortnight.

In the film Fedja is the translator, the one guiding and helping the aid workers to understand and being understood by local people. His character never shows emotions until he reveals he has a weak point when his family is threatened.

Since he lived and fought during the war in the Balkans, he is very happy with the way the war topic is treated, the dramatic events are balanced by a great sense of humor and irony spreading all over the film.

A PERFECT DAY: A group of aid workers tries to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone: Sophie is a newcomer, she wants to help ; Mambrú has seen it all and wants to go home ; Katya is the former mistress of Mambrú ; Damir wants the war to end, and B doesn’t know what he wants.

Humor, drama, emotion, routine, danger, hope : it all fits in A perfect day.

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