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Han Jun-hee – Director – Coin Locker Girl.

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Han Jun-hee, whose feature directorial debut “Coin Locker Girl” was featured in the programme of the Semaine de la Critique at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

He talks with us about the influence the film noir genre has on his film. He also talks with us about his choice of having the female characters in this particular film as female, and the different types of sensibilities this particular choice can bring to a project.

Han Jun-hee also talks about the themes that he deals with in this film, such as the theme of family and “being useful” and reveals to us what it feels like to have his feature directorial debut screening in Cannes.

COIN LOCKER GIRL: As a just-born-baby, ‘Il-young’ gets abandoned in the coin-locker #10 of a subway station. Eight years later, she is sold off to the godmother of a Chinatown ring known as ‘Mom’, and becomes a member of her family.

Only the useful ones can survive in this family of Chinatown. Coin Locker Girl is a story of two women who have found their own ways to survive in a cruel, harsh world.

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Marcia Tambutti Allende – Director – Allende Mi Abuelo Allende.

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Marcia Tambutti Allende, granddaughter of Salvador Allende and director of the documentary “Allende Mi Abuelo Allende“, presented at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

A personal journey of discovery of her grandfather, Salvador Allende, the great Chilean political leader who became the first Marxist president of a Latin American country. Marcia tells us about her personal journey, and discusses with us her struggles in getting her family members to open up to her and tell her about him.

She also talks about how she shaped her production, and how long it took for her to gather together all the material she needed to make “Allende Mi Abuelo Allende“, as well as whether of not she felt the responsibility of not only making her first documentary about such an important figure in political history, but also the responsibility of revealing a secret and intimate side of her own family’s story to the wider public – not least of all through its premiere in Cannes.

ALLENDE MI ABUELO ALLENDE (BEYOND MY GRANDFATHER ALLENDE): Marcia wishes to change the family costume of not speaking about their tragic past. 35 years after the coup d’État that overthrew her grandfather, Salvador Allende, the first democratically elected socialist president, she believes that it’s time to recover the family memories and images of their daily life, snatched away during the coup. An intimate past unknown to her, buried under Allende’s political transcendence, exile and family pain. Using a warm yet sharp view, Marcia tries to decipher silence sustained during decades. An honest family portrait without grandiloquence that addresses the complexities of irreparable losses and the role of memory in three generations of a wounded family.

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Gabriel Clarke and John Mckenna – Directors – Steve McQueen the man and le mans

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna, who presented their documentary “Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans” in the Cannes Classics section of the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

McKenna and Clarke talk with us about how they first realized that the 1971 production of the film “Le Mans” was such an intense production that marked the life of Hollywood icon Steve McQueen.

They also talk with us about how they were able top discover primary source material, some of which is seen and heard for the first time ever, and their aim in revealing and insightful look at the man Steve McQueen, rather than just the actor.

STEVE MCQUEEN: THE MAN AND LE MANS: ‘If we are going to do this, we are going to do it right. No bullshit, no clever twists. It has to be pure and about one race – Le Mans.’

By 1970, Steve McQueen ruled Hollywood. Hot off the back of classics like ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ and ‘Bullitt’ he could do no wrong. Now the aspiring mogul and racing fanatic could do the movie that was his life’s passion. The making of the film changed his life forever.

Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans interweaves stunning newly discovered footage and voice recordings with original interviews. It is the true story of how a cinema legend would risk almost everything in pursuit of his dream.

Obsession. Betrayal. Vindication. ‘You must carry your film all the way through to the end. You can’t give up and you can’t let a thing go.’ Steve McQueen

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Chad McQueen – Son of Steve McQueen – Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets Chad McQueen, son of the Hollywood legend and actor Steve McQueen, to mark the screening of the documentary Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans in the Cannes Classics section of the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

Chad talks with us about the intensity of the tumultuous production of the 1971 film Le Mans, and about the film’s legacy. He also shares with us his opinion on his father’s love for fast cars and motor racing and where it might have come from.

On top of that, he also tells us about his own journey in the production of the documentary, revisiting personal events that affected his life and the life of his family at the time, including his parents’ divorce and the birth of his love of motor racing right there on the Le Mans race track.

STEVE MCQUEEN: THE MAN AND LE MANS: ‘If we are going to do this, we are going to do it right. No bullshit, no clever twists. It has to be pure and about one race – Le Mans.’ By 1970, Steve McQueen ruled Hollywood.

Hot off the back of classics like ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ and ‘Bullitt’ he could do no wrong. Now the aspiring mogul and racing fanatic could do the movie that was his life’s passion. The making of the film changed his life forever.

Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans interweaves stunning newly discovered footage and voice recordings with original interviews. It is the true story of how a cinema legend would risk almost everything in pursuit of his dream.

Obsession. Betrayal. Vindication. ‘You must carry your film all the way through to the end. You can’t give up and you can’t let a thing go.’ Steve McQueen

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Grìmur Hakonarson – Director – Rams.

A talk with the director to understand better the nature and its influence on the country life in Iceland, and find more about raising rams and liveing with them. And maske them act…. All of it with a good share of icelandic wit

RAMS: In a remote Icelandic valley, two brothers who haven’t spoken in forty years will have to come together in order to save what’s dearest to them : their rams.

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Ida Panahandeh – Director and writer – Nahid

Ida Panahandeh, talks about the artistic efforts that are behind the completion of Nahid, her first feature, here at Cannes in Un Certain Regard’s official selection.

Plot: A young divorcee living with her son in a small northern city of Iran, wants to marry the man she has fallen in in love with. According to the current rules, the father has the custody of children, however her ex husband has granted her that right on the condition that she doesn’t remarry.

Struggling to keep both of her beloved ones, she has to think about the third option: temporary marriage (Sighe). However, this will get her into a predicament, as despite it being legal, Sighe is not well-received by the society.

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John C. Reilly and Ben Whishaw – Actors – The lobster

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets John C. Reilly and Ben Whishaw, actors in Yorgos Lanthimos film The Lobster, in competition at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

They talk with us about the atmosphere of the production and share with us their opinion on the perspective of filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos.

They also share with us their opinion on the theme of the film, which revolves around relationships and paranoia in a (not too distant) future world, and reveal to us the decisions they would have made had they found themselves in the same situation in which the characters they portray are in.

THE LOBSTER: A love story set in the near future where single people, according to the rules of The City, are arrested and transferred to The Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into The Woods. A desperate Man escapes from The Hotel to The Woods where The Loners live and falls in love, although it is against their rules.

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Emmanuelle Bercot – Director – Standing Tall (La tete haute)

Emmanuelle Bercot tells us about the origin of the story of Standing Tall, the opening film of the 68th edition of the Festival de Cannes.

She also talks with us about her approach on working with actors, especially non-professional ones, and her search for truthfulness, without ever judging her characters or confining them to clichés.

STANDING TALL (LA TETE HAUTE): Standing Tall is the intense and profoundly moving account of the difficult path of rehabilitation of a violent juvenile delinquent wonderfully embodied by debutant actor Rod Paradot.

This character is surrounded by his loving but unfit mother (Sara Forestier), as well as a devoted judge for minors (Catherine Deneuve) and an educator (Benoît Magimel) who are determined not to abandon the boy to his seemingly desperate situation.

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Wilfried Van Baelen – CEO Aurotechnologies

The classic 5.1 audio system now is implemented and “pimped” by Audio Techonolgies and tehir brand new Auro 3D system.

You won’t believe your ears and your senses when you experienced it. It will be soon in a theatre near you and can be set up in your home. Hear form the entousiastic and satysfied voice of its inventor how it works and why it is the ultimate frontier of quality audio, for theatre cinema and music too.

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Oh Seung Uk – Director – The Shameless (Mu roe han)

Oh Seung-Uk talks to FRED about the journey in the making of the Shameless, his second feature, fourteen years away from his debut Kilimanjaro.

Plot: In order to capture a mob enforcer, homicide detective Jung befriends his girlfriend, Hye-kyung, only to fall in love with her.

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