The story behind the controversial director of "Emilia Pérez"
Although film director Jacques Audiard was born and raised among film scripts, he really He became interested in cinema at the end of his adolescence.
While he was a child, his father, director Michel Audiard, wrote stories such as Les grandes families and Cent mille dollars au soleil that starred French acting icons Jean Gabin and Jean Paul Belmondo.
But, precisely because his father was so popular, he also knew the bad side of it, as filmmakers of the “Nouvelle Vague” such as Jean Luc Godard, Agnés Varda and Claude Chabrol, They considered him old and unproactive.
So the relationship with his father was primarily about his literary tastes, rather than cinema. In fact, Jacques studied literature and letters.
“I spent a large part of my childhood in boarding schools, or rather, in prison, and when I left that “boarding school-prison” I was in Paris. Paris was a place where you could see 10 films in a weekend between the cinematheque and other places. I would say that my love for cinema came to me when I was 15 or 16 years old. ", he said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, in Spanish.
Read: Demi Moore's artistic rebirthHe is a fan of black and white silent films (he idolizes Fritz Lang), but also acknowledges that he was influenced by the films of Martin Scorsese ( Raging Bull ) and Brian de Palma ( Carrie ), as well as the Japanese Akira Kurosawa.
So, having so many movies around him since his childhood, The time came when he wanted to direct , with the idea that his films portray a painful but at the same time luminous reality, even if in the end it is not always so.
Her debut film, Sur mes lévres , starring Vincent Cassel as an ex-convict, shows a young woman who is almost deaf and can read lips, trying to help a man she has just met, without knowing the consequences.
De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté , Her second feature film, she won the BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Film, captivating with the story of a young man who must choose between being like his bully father or pursuing being a pianist, his true passion.
A Prophet was a turning point in her career. And not because she was nominated for an Oscar in the Foreign Language category, or because of her triumphs at Cannes and the BAFTA, but because she began to portray non-French characters.
The decision, he said at the time, was because he stopped seeing stories in local cinema where he saw himself portrayed. It didn't mean anything to him anymore. He said that they didn't show the harshness of reality either, so he wanted to get away from that a little, In addition to experimenting with languages I didn't know, something that would be consolidated in Dheepan (2015), about a Sri Lankan man, spoken in English and Tamil.
"When I work in French, I'm not as attentive to the musicality of the language, but in other languages, I am. That allows me to create from another place," he said.
Read: Crusade launched to save Roman cultural sitesEmilia Pérez , who is now on the verge of an Oscar, came up with a character from the novel Écoute , in whose plot there is barely any mention of the existence of a Mexican drug lord who wants to change sex. After reading it, she thought it would be a good idea for a film. The film has received strong reviews, especially in Mexico and several Latin American countries, however, it was able to collect the awards for Best European Film at the Goya Awards in Spain, and for Best Non-English Language at the BAFTA and Critics Choice Awards.
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