Cinergie interviews top local directors in June issue
While we impatiently await the release of Mr Nobody [+see also:
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interview: Jaco Van Dormael
interview: Jaco Van Dormael
film profile], Cinergie met with the film’s director. Standing on the platform at Brussels North station, or looking in vain for the benches which are dear to him in Boisfort (he had them placed there for his film), Jaco Van Dormael reveals his cinematic approach, and the main themes running through his filmography.
He films children and old people because they don’t need the politeness of adulthood, they are invincible. What interests him most when he has his camera in hand is reproducing thought mechanisms through associations, playing with space and time. In this respect, Mr Nobody looks set to be his craziest film yet, his “first film for youngsters”, in which a child contemplates the adults he may become and an old man looks at the child he once was.
Meanwhile, Richard Olivier has decided to focus on the great diversity of Belgian directors. In Big Memory, he sets out to film all of Belgium’s directors, giving them 13 minutes to talk about themselves. What’s important is not so much the question (“What led you to become a filmmaker?”), as the answers, and the individuals behind the works. The film pays homage to today’s artists and those who are no longer with us.
Another artist appears before the lens of Manu Bonmariage. In Looking for Dragone, he follows the film and theatre director during rehearsals for his new mega-project, an adaptation of Othello. Between Las Vegas and Macau, Bonmariage trains his camera on La Louvière-born Dragone, who tries to import US-style entertainment formulas to “his country” and the theatre.
Finally, Cinergie couldn’t fail to mention next week’s release of two films produced by La Parti and helmed by two dynamic filmmaking duos: Hand of the Headless Man [+see also:
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film profile] by the Malandrin brothers and A Town Called Panic [+see also:
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interview: Stéphane Aubier and Vincen…
interview: Stéphane Aubier & Vincent P…
film profile] by Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier.
(Translated from French)
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