Director Coralie Fargeat and star Matilda Lutz discuss Revenge, the stigma around genre cinema, mixing humour and violence, and the way victims are still held responsible for being attacked. This is an excerpt from our forthcoming ebook on feminist horror beyond empowertainment. To read the entire article, get your copy of the book here.
World Cinema
Under-the-radar non-English language filmmakers talk about their artistic processes.
Ruben Östlund: ‘It’s more interesting to have someone do something stupid or amoral out of pure candour or naivety’
Ruben Östlund on his Palme d’Or winner The Square, the mechanisms of empathy, the state of contemporary art, and the pleasures of tragi-comedy.
Director Xavier Legrand on his Silver Lion winning debut Custody
Theatre actor Xavier Legrand discusses directing his first feature, Custody, mixing realism and genre, working with a young actor, and thinking in frames.
‘There have been two big stories in my life — the AIDS crisis and the cinema’: Robin Campillo on BPM (Beats Per Minute)
Director Robin Campillo and actors Nahuel Pérez Biscayart and Arnaud Valois discuss the making of 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute), the importance of Act Up, and coming out of the AIDS closet.
Elizaveta Stishova on Suleiman Mountain and the Kyrgyzstan film industry
Suleiman Mountain director Elizaveta Stishova talks tragedy and farce, the film industry in Kyrgyzstan, and being a woman in rural Kyrgyzstan.
‘What I really wanted to know was: ‘Why did we stay?’’: Mila Turajlic on the trauma of ex-Yugoslavia in The Other Side of Everything
In Mila Turajlic’s doc The Other Side of Everything, a Serbian apartment divided under communism is a symbol of a difficult past lingering in the present.