FRED Film Radio - English Channel

PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews director Vincent Biron and actor Alexandre Lavigne, who talk about the film Prank presented at Venezia 73 [International Critics’ Week]

Director Vincent Biron and his actor Alexandre Lavigne tell us about the making of Prank, a wierdly funny low budget comedy, unconsciously inspired by Todd Solondz and Kevin Smith. The freedom of a 4 people film crew and a low low budget gave the film the freedom it needed to succeed, and Vincent tells us how true this has been.

PRANK. Stefie, an unremarkable teenage loner, is recruited by Martin, Jean-Sé and Lea to record their daily capers with his cellphone. The four pranksters decide to set up a stunt that go beyond anything they’ve done so far… But this time, who will be the victim? A funny and cruel coming-of-age story about love, friendship, peer pressure and loss of innocence.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews actor Antonio de la Torre, who talks about his role in the film The Fury of a Patient Man from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

Antonio De La Torre plays the leading role in The Fury of a Patient Man from the main competiton of the 73rd Venice Film Festival. In our interview with the director of the movie The Fury of a Patient Man, he described the film as treasuring realism withing a genre concept, like revenge. The film’s intensity works also thanks to De La Torre, who ups the game with his performance.

After a description of his character, offering his insight on his viewpoint of the character he plays, he then says that as an actor, he tries not to look at his roles as characters. In this sense, in his work as an actor, he likes to work more as a chameleon. “Human behaviour is amazing,” he mentions. But did he understand how real the film would have to get, and how dark things would become in the final piece?

De La Torre also talks about his collaboration with the director, offering some amusing experimentation that led to the final work, a further testimony to the collaborative effort that defined The Fury of a Patient Man.

THE FURY OF A PATIENT MAN. Madrid, August 2007. Curro is the only one arrested for the robbery of a jewelry store. Eight years later, his girlfriend Ana and their son are waiting for Curro to get out of prison. Jose is a solitary and reserved man who just does not seem to fit in anywhere. One morning he goes for a coffee at the bar where Ana and her brother work. That winter his life gets interwoven with the others’ at the bar, who take him in as one of their own. This is especially the case with Ana, who sees this newcomer as an outlet for her distressing life. Having done his time, Curro gets out with the hope of starting his life with Ana over again. But everything has changed in just a very short time.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director Raul Arevalo, who talks about his new film The Fury Of A Patient Man from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

Raúl Arévalo, famous Spanish actor, makes his directorial feature debut in The Fury of a Patient Man. Arevalo defines the film as a thriller drama, a revenge story. However, he also makes sure to mention that in making it, he sought a realistic approach, which he achieved successfully in a series of ways he mentions in this interview. The screenplay was constructed over the course of nearly a decade, and evolved constantly during this time. Did he always visualize the film in the same way? Given his vast acting background, what does he feel his previous acting works for film have contributed to his shaping his identity as a filmmaking? This, he also reveals to FRED in this interview.

THE FURY OF A PATIENT MAN. Madrid, August 2007. Curro is the only one arrested for the robbery of a jewelry store. Eight years later, his girlfriend Ana and their son are waiting for Curro to get out of prison. Jose is a solitary and reserved man who just does not seem to fit in anywhere. One morning he goes for a coffee at the bar where Ana and her brother work. That winter his life gets interwoven with the others’ at the bar, who take him in as one of their own. This is especially the case with Ana, who sees this newcomer as an outlet for her distressing life. Having done his time, Curro gets out with the hope of starting his life with Ana over again. But everything has changed in just a very short time.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews director Andrew Dominik, who talks about his film One More Time With Feeling from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING. Originally a performance-based concept, One More Time With Feeling evolved into something much more significant as it delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. Interwoven throughout the Bad Seeds’ filmed performance of the new album are interviews and footage shot by Dominik, accompanied by Cave’s intermittent narration and improvised rumination. The result is stark, fragile and raw and a true testament to an artist trying to find his way through the darkness.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director Bill Morrison, who talks about his new film Dawson City: Frozen Time from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s–1920s, lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory. Using these films, as well as interviews and reportage, fused with an enigmatic, original score by Alex Somers, the film deftly depicts the unique history of a Canadian gold rush town, by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation—and through that collection, tracing how a First Nation hunting camp was transformed and displaced.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews music composer Alex Somers and sound designer John Somers on the film Dawson City: Frozen Time from Venezia 73.

DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s–1920s, lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory. Using these films, as well as interviews and reportage, fused with an enigmatic, original score by Alex Somers, the film deftly depicts the unique history of a Canadian gold rush town, by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation—and through that collection, tracing how a First Nation hunting camp was transformed and displaced.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews director Amat Escalante, who talks about his new film The Untamed of the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

THE UNTAMED. Young mother Alejandra is a working housewife, raising two boys with husband Angel in a small town. Her brother Fabian works as a nurse in a local hospital. Their provincial lives are upset with the arrival of mysterious Veronica. Sex and love can be fragile in certain regions where strong family values, hypocrisy, homophobia, and male chauvinism exist. Veronica convinces them that in the nearby woods, inside an isolated cabin, dwells something not of this world that could be the answer to all of their problems. Something whose force they cannot resist and with whom they must make peace or suffer its wrath.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director Karl Lemieux, who talks about their new film Shambles of the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

SHAMBLES Caught stealing drugs from the wrong people, 27 year old Vincent is in trouble and on the run from the local mob. Fleeing to the backwoods, Vincent unexpectedly reconnects with his brother Michel with whom he’d cut ties many years ago. As he tries to maintain the semblance of a normal life hanging out with friends and playing in his band, Vincent witnesses his brother’s own turbulent downward spiral. Maudite poutine draws us into a darkly dystopian rural world, a place in which violence pervades the everyday but humanity still manages to shine through the cracks.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews director Mel Gibson and actor Andrew Garfield, who talk about their new film Hacksaw Ridge of the 73rd Venezia Film Festival.

HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss who, in Okinawa during one of the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in World War II to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. Doss was the first conscientious objector to ever earn the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director John Landis, who talks about his classic 1988 film An American Werewolf In London from Venezia 73.

John Landis, the American filmmaker, presented a restored version of his 1981 beloved horror classic An American Werewolf in London. The film has certainly stood the test of time, and in our quick chat with Landis, the director tells us of the origins of the film and how he feels his own taste in movies, beginning from so called B-movies, influenced it as well as the other works of his career.

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. David and Jack, two American college students, are backpacking through Britain when a large wolf attacks them. David survives with a bite, but Jack is brutally killed. As David heals in the hospital, he’s plagued by violent nightmares of his mutilated friend, who warns him that he is becoming a werewolf. When he discovers the horrible truth, he contemplates committing suicide before the next full moon causes him to transform from man to murderous beast.

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