I wished to ask you about capitalism’s function within the movie. Clearly, they’re eradicating these antiquities, not simply to have that reference to historical past, however they’re then promoting them on the black market. You’ve that nice scene on the boat together with your sister Alba. I might love to listen to your ideas on how capitalism is available in and modifications how we work together with our personal historical past, in that it causes us to position financial values on issues as a substitute of inner values.
The film talks concerning the arrival of materialism within the deepest sense of this time period, as a result of clearly already within the Nineteen Eighties this financial mannequin, primarily based on consumerism, had already gained floor that was already established. However in my view, deep down within the human soul, till the 80s, it wasn’t like that. Individuals would nonetheless discuss to their washer or they’d pray to the oven in order that the bread would rise correctly. Objects had been nonetheless filled with an invisible thriller, even client items up till the Nineteen Eighties. Then within the Nineteen Eighties, all this world disappeared. Then the mannequin that’s primarily based on simply creating wealth and materials issues, and cash being the one strategy to empower oneself. This type of materialism turns into deeply rooted, in order that not solely individuals like this should not the unhealthy ones within the society, they’re the product of society. They’re a product of the society that tells its youngsters there may be nothing that is invisible anymore, all the things is seen, and you should purchase and promote something and all the things.
So within the film, I wished to create a picture of what capitalism is for me. And that picture is that of a bunch of canines growling at one another and combating with one another, the place the small canine and the large canine are all the identical. There is not even that division anymore between the client and the vendor. They’re all there to shout at one another to growl at one another, throughout a bone. Arthur takes away that bone from the world of commerce, from the world of the dwelling, and he throws it within the water.
So positively, there is a criticism, similar to there may be in all of my motion pictures, of this world that’s made simply of issues. And there’s a need to speak concerning the invisible layer that’s in issues, and hopefully, there will be extra of a concentrate on that going ahead.
You have talked about Agnès Varda’s “Vagabond” as an inspiration prior to now, so I used to be questioning if there are another filmmakers who’re girls or movies directed by girls from the previous or current that basically encourage you as an artist or as an individual who loves movie?
There are lots of girls filmmakers who’re inspiring, like Agnès Varda, so it is troublesome to single out only one. Having mentioned that, there are additionally all the time too few. I want there have been much more of them. It’s about time as a result of usually girls have a really completely different means of storytelling in comparison with males. I feel this is a bonus additionally for males, who have to understand how girls see the world. Clearly over the millennia we’ve got developed a unique means of telling our tales, a unique perspective on issues. I imagine it might be essential for there to be much more girls filmmakers. I am making an attempt to consider one title above all. In fact, I’m very tightly linked to Jane Campion, who isn’t solely an excellent filmmaker, but in addition a pal to me, simply the best way Agnès Varda was. If I’ve to say one filmmaker who has deeply impressed me, and who really made me wish to be free, it’s a film by Kira Muratova known as “Attending to Know the Huge, Large World.” If I needed to single out one, it might perhaps be that.
