Exclusive: Mexican director Michel Franco knocks at the Berlin Film Festival this week with the drama dreams Jessica Chastain, also a participating product under the banner of her company Freckle Films.
Romanticism has evolved on stars lovers, Chastain plays the starring role in San Francisco Socialist and Charitable Jennifer
When her younger Mexican lover Fernando – a dancer she met through a dance school program run by her family institution in Mexico – appears at her home in San Francisco after taking a risky illegal trip across the border, their love story becomes complicated.
Mexican ballet dancer, Isaac Hernandez, who is currently a major dancer at the American Ballet Theater, in front of Chastain in the role of Fernando.
The film, the second cooperation between Franco and Castin yet memoryHe reaches the festival, where the discussion has long been on illegal immigration on the Mexican border and the United States heats up with President Donald Trump’s second term in his position.
The deadline sat with Franco at the festival before the first show tonight.
Delivery date: What is the starting point for this movie?
Michelle Franco: I have always been very sensitive to the questions related to the defect between Mexico and the states, and how many millions and millions of Mexicans, and migrants in general, suffer in the states and what they are going through, and what they bear. Especially Mexicans, because I am Mexican.
They do that country a lot and is never recognized. This has not started now, even if it reached a critical point now. I took care of her because I am a child. When you are a child, I will go on vacation to the states. I am Mexican. I had a Spanish explosion everywhere in the United States. But how to explain to a child that everyone speaks Spanish, but Mexicans are usually the ones who work.
Delivery date: You mentioned that you started thinking seriously about the movie four years ago … so that was during Trump’s first term in his post?
Franco: As I said, I was obsessed with it all my life. Trump will not be attached to him directly. It is worse with Trump, of course, he is very frank about it, it’s clear and direct. But politicians who will not speak this way were not better for Mexicans and immigrants. They may be the most classic politicians in terms of not talking about some ideas that excite hatred. The characters in my films, the Jessica family, are the liberals, and this makes it more interesting.
Delivery date: What do you think should be resolved to solve the Mexico and United States border crisis?
Franco: I am just a movie director. For me, that will be enough if my fellow Mexican immigrants and every other immigrant are recognized in the good job they do. How do the borders solve? I am just a movie director and I know this movie raises many questions, but I can’t provide any answers.
Also, I made a story that is an intimate story of this couple. Sometimes I deal with things in another way, as with New matterBut in this case, I focus on this intimate story.
Delivery date: However, it is rare to see the discussion of illegal immigration to address it through a romantic perspective against this type of wealthy and artistic background…
Franco: Yes … and even at the beginning of the movie, when it begins, you are like, oh, it’s this type of movie and then moves to the house. Directors always take responsibility, but film makers are usually lazy so that they do not take responsibility, to do original work.
I challenge myself to make time a movie that surprises the fans. memoryFor example, it goes in one direction and turns into something completely different. We always need original work and to make the same movie that everyone has watched over and over again.
Delivery date: Was a talented dance hypothesis not granted not to be granted in the United States? Certainly, if the performer is a tremendous artistic talent, he will secure a visa> The United States wants a talent.
Franco: I know that many talented people in many areas in Mexico or musicians or in any field are never a break, and they do not get the right opportunity and are never recognized. I think we always come from a more difficult place, Mexicans and people from unparalleled countries, and we are always more difficult.
When I filmed my first movie in 2008, only eight films were made in Mexico every year, and now 220 films, Mexican opportunities were at the time to become a successful movie.
Delivery date: As she says, the family of Jessica Shastein is the liberal wealthy. Are you, do you refer to the finger of liberals and support for American Democrats, saying they are not better than Trump’s supporters?
Franco: No, not at all. I try to be respectful. I never refer to anyone. I always try to make a movie complex enough in the same movie, the idea will be contradictory. There is no good or bad. I try to write people who make mistakes. I understand what Jessica is going through. I do, as you know, I will not judge it. I will not call it.
I did not follow the simplified approach because some conservative people may show more qualities when the time comes. I think all of these stickers are very dangerous. The world’s condition should not be simplified into signs because at that time it is very simple from the game and turns into a game and it is not about it. The sympathy is always the thing. Even when I made a new request, a very violent film, it is always about sympathy. I have no big answers, just put yourself in the other leg shoes that are always difficult.
Delivery date: Without giving up the end of the movie far away … it’s unexpected. What is your thinking?
Franco: I would like to explain the true colors of people and exit, this intimate story at the end of the day talks about a larger position, and harsh and harsh things are committed every day towards the weakest, those who do not have rights, you know and symbolize how the real result in daily life.
Delivery date: How to work with Jessica Shastein?
Franco: She completely trusts me but the reason she trusts me is that we have a great connection. We love our time together talking about matters or personal ideas of movies, laughter or anything else. We became friends by making memory. It is similar to the way I work with Tim Roth, which I made in two films, and I will make more.
I tell them my thoughts, especially when I know that I will write them in particular because they are very smart actors. Talent is not only good being a good actor. I use their brains and many ideas that come from those conversations.
Delivery date: Sorry to bring another movie in this interview, but what do you think about the discussion about the filming of French director Jack Odiad for Mexico in Emilia Perez?
Franco: I had no opportunity to watch the movie, so I couldn’t say … as Mexican, I have the right to shoot in the United States because we share these huge boundaries and because it affects our daily life. It goes in both directions. I fired fire memory In New York, but I always try to make films only about what I know well and know the states well because they are the closest, and over the validity, I will go several times a year to the United States.
