Popcorn or Dry Food?
Questioning in the entrance office of the Palais des Festivals before handing over the accreditations. Today the Caesar of the best male hope is Bastien Bouillon.
César for Best Male Hope in February for his role as the obsessive inspector in Dominik Moll’s Night of the Twelve. The actor and director is one of Unifrance’s list of upcoming talents “Ten to Watch”, a showcase of French cinema abroad.
What’s Your Cannes Film Festival Survival Kit?
The SNCF train station area, far from the red carpet, and a bathing suit so I can jump in the sea and swim.
The movie (or sequence) that shaped your childhood?
The King and the Bird by Paul Grimault.
A movie your parents didn’t let you see?
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.
A fetish scene or a scene that haunts you?
In Kurosawa’s Legend of the Great Judo, the protagonist claims to his master that he can die for his art. Suddenly, as evidence, he throws himself into a pond, hoping to drown there, but spends the night there clinging to a piece of wood. In the morning, a white flower bloomed right next to him. He comes out of the pond and throws himself at Master’s feet to apologize; he has found the way of man.
Popcorn or Dry Food?
It depends on the movie.
Silent or discussing during the project?
Be quiet, but keep the word out loud if you have to, stay active.
The soundtrack that’s floating around in your head?
That of Moha, my 2020 short film. Emile Parisien is the author. Michael Galasso has also signed In the Mood for Love for Wong Kar-wai.
A film that makes you want to tear up the screen.
If it’s anger, too many to list. If it’s fun, George Miller’s Mad Max, Fury Road in 3D.
A film that is good to live in?
Mary Poppins.
The last time you cried in a room?
After the performance, I cry alone in the toilet or when I leave the room, but I am rarely inside during the performance. I was recently shocked by Oliver Laxe’s Will Come Fire.
Her life becomes a biopic. Who in your role? And who is behind the camera?
Gena Rowlands in front and a 4 year old behind the camera.
What movie monster or psychopath are you closest to?
Viggo Mortensen in David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence.
The last Picture?
The ending sequence of Pialat’s We will not grow old together when the pole comes into the frame is great, cinema!