I know my country and its cultural likes and dislikes. I have a bigger fan base in the U.S., for example, which is amazing. I don’t know, it’s just not something that is surprising to me as a French person. I assumed that for people who didn’t like my film in the first place, the Palme d’Or must have made them irate. Why wasn’t I surprised? Because I know the sorts of films that are normally awarded and Titane didn’t fit the mould at all. How did you feel about that?ĭUCOURNAU: I didn’t expect anything, which is great because I didn’t want to go up and make a speech on the stage, which is very frightening. It was the first time a French Palme d’Or has not made it into category in the history of the prizes. There are various other environments I have to explore but it doesn’t mean it will take place in New York.ĭEADLINE: Going back to Titane, the film was snubbed in France’s César awards earlier this year, after it failed to be nominated in the best film category. I won’t only be spending time at the hospital. I’ll go there, I’ll meet people and I’ll write. They have various residencies across the U.S. Villa Albertine is a writing residency like Villa Medici in Rome, which I did for Raw. I never say anythingĭEADLINE: Will the residency result in a piece of work?ĭUCOURNAU: No. I don’t know if you remember before Cannes, Titane had been finished for quite a few months, but the synopsis I gave to Cannes was the definition of what titanium is. I’m kind of mischievous about this sort of thing.

The most famous one.ĭEADLINE: Can you give a bit more detail?ĭUCOURNAU: I can’t talk about it. Is that still correct?ĭUCOURNAU: No, it’s a hospital in New York. with the French Villa Albertine program, what does that involve?ĭUCOURNAU: In 2023, I’ll go to SXSW and then afterwards I’m going to New York for three months for the residencyĭEADLINE: The blurb on the Villa Albertine website says that you will be investigating the world of skin surgery at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A, and meeting with tattoo artists from the NY Empire State Tattoo Expo. It’s just characters, whether there is genre or not.ĭEADLINE: I read that you’re doing a residency in the U.S. I’m not saying it’s easy but they allow themselves to go far, to take risks.ĭEADLINE: The series is very different from your genre-led works Raw and Titane?ĭUCOURNAU: I don’t need genre or horror to be involved in order for me to relate to a story or a character and to have ideas to portray these emotions.

When you have actors like this, you feel like you’ve struck gold. The two leads are two actors I wanted to work with, Juliette Binoche and Ben Mendelsohn. He is very convincing and a very sensitive person, which I appreciate.

As long as I relate and the characters talk to me and I believe I can film them with love, I can do it.ĭUCOURNAU: Many things. Directing is also a way of telling a story and it’s not that different from writing, it’s just you have other tools. Now I am back to writing.ĭEADLINE: How is it directing other people’s material?ĭUCOURNAU: I’ve done it on other things, such as M. So it’s good to hop on a project like that. I do this because I am writing right now, but if you just write and you never set foot on a set for three, or four years, that’s horrendous. JULIA DUCOURNAU: I was shooting a TV show the whole summer that’s not mine, The New Look for Apple. Having spent this summer filming two episodes of the Apple TV+ series The New Look, starring Ben Mendelsohn as Christian Dior and Juliette Binoche as Coco Chanel, she is now gearing up to participate in France’s Villa Albertine artist residency program in New York.ĭeadline caught up with the director in the gardens of Marrakech’s Mamounia Hotel ahead of her In Conversation talk.ĭEADLINE: How have you been decompressing after your eventful 2021? 'The Mother Of All Lies' Director Asmae El Moudir Among Filmmakers Set For 2024 Cannes Film Festival Residency Program

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