In this week’s episode of The Screen Podcast, the team debriefs on Cannes Film Festival’s closing ceremony and awards, and chats to Norwegian actresses Renate Reinsve, star of Palme d’Or winner Fjord, and Marie Ulven, star of Directors’ Fortnight title Low Expectations.
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First, host Wendy Mitchell is joined by Screen’s France correspondent Rebecca Leffler to take us inside Cannes’ closing night activities, including the best speeches, in-the-room reactions and the afterparty.
”Politics were there, but they didn’t overpower like in Berlin,” Leffler said. ”There were obviously more subtle statements with political undertones. But I think both the films and the prizes reflected this idea that, yes, the world is bad, there’s suffering, but we can still have a little bit of hope.”
Then Mitchell speaks to Reinsve and Ulven on the ground in Cannes about how their friendship began over a bottle of tequila, being at the festival with their respective films, and what it’s like to work with Anders Danielsen Lie.
“It was the easiest character to watch because she’s so different than me,” said Reinsve of the conservative Christian mother she plays in Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord. “She lives the opposite life from me. And the form that the director uses is so objective – he places the camera far away and, 30 percent of the time, my character is out of focus.”
The Screen Podcast is produced by Ellie Calnan, with Wendy Mitchell serving as editorial director. New episodes every Thursday.
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