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ZULU: PROTAGONISTA, CON ORLANDO BLOOM E FOREST WHITAKER, IL SUD AFRICA
Dal 66. Festival del Cinema di CANNES - PROSSIMAMENTE
"Actually though, I do love this genre. But that doesn’t mean I’m destined to only make detective films. I'm going to set myself the challenge of trying to make a gun-free film next time! I do love watching this type of film though. One of my favourite directors is Jean-Pierre Melville and he’s no doubt had an influence on my work... One of the trickiest aspects was the language. Directing actors is a complex job. On the set, I needed to use exactly the right words to get across my ideas and feelings, in English obviously, and that was a bit frustrating for me. My vocabulary felt like a twelve year old’s, whereas I wanted to avoid giving out overly crude instructions...I almost didn’t make the film because I was afraid that it wasn’t going to be legitimate for me to talk about South African and Apartheid in a country that wasn’t my own. To make up for it, I spent a lot of time out there. I was keen to keep the number of French people involved to a minimum and so we took on a number of South African production directors and actors. I didn't feel unsafe at any time. It’s important to remember that the poor are the ones who suffer most from violence. It doesn’t tend to affect well-off white people residing in Cape Town’s wealthy neighbourhoods...In the book and the film, South Africa is just as much a character in the film as the two heroes. Rather than being a film about Apartheid, it’s about the difficulties human beings or entire societies experience as they live through a trauma... It was essential for me to ring true. Authenticity in a film is a matter of detail: the way people greet each other, the way they kiss".
Il regista e co-sceneggiatore Jérôme Salle
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