Stockholm Film Festival

“People want you to talk about a film as soonas you make it. But the film is the thing. It’s thewhole thing”, says director David Lynch, pointingto the redundancy of words.

One learns an awful lot from the way a directortalks about their work (or doesn’t, for that matter).First time director Angela Ismailos makes herdebut a golden opportunity to interview nine ofcinema’s greats; Bernardo Bertolucci, CatherineBreillat, David Lynch, Ken Loach, Stephen Frears,Todd Haynes, John Sayles, Liliana Cavani, AgnesVarda and Richard Linklater.

Through film clips and archival footage –treating the issue of time as a non-existingelement – Angela Ismailos closes in on theseiconic filmmakers. Speaking eloquently of lifeexperience, artistic struggles and their ownwork, we discover not only their differences, butalso their common ground. What stands out mostis their daring quests for authenticity, whetherit’s staying true to a political cause, a personalvision or just getting the final cut.
LEE BLANCHARD

Cast

Bernardo Bertolucci, Agnès Varda, David Lynch

Producer

Angela Ismailos

Script

Angela Ismailos

Cinematography

John Pirozzi

Spoken language

English

 

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