He may be barred from leaving Russia and thus unable to travel to Cannes, but arthouse cinema favorite Kirill Serebrennikov is refusing to let that dampen his spirit ahead of the premiere of his la…
, in the French fest’s Competition.
The filmmaker has been battling fraud charges in his home country for a number of years – charges which have been condemned by human rights organizations – but whencatches up with him via video link to Moscow, he is relaxed, telling us he is happy that his new picture is getting out into the world after a long delay , and to already be hard at work on his next feature.
I was under house arrest and Ilya told me, ‘you have a lot of time, could you think about how to do something with it?’ I jumped into it and it grabbed me completely. It is poetry, the author is a poet who started to write prose, the construction of the text is poetic – and cinema is poetry. The producers loved the script and started to look for a director to make it. But then my circumstances changed, I was released, and I had time to work. And then my trial started, I said, ‘let’s do it anyway’. I had a month or two months without sleeping – part of the day was the trial and then we shot at night. The days were short. The crew and actors understood what was happening and helped a lot.Russia is crazy, being here is high adrenaline.
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