Australian helmer-screenwriter-cinematographer Warwick Thornton won Cannes’ Camera d’Or with “Samson and Delilah” in 2009. Now he’s back with his third feature, “The New Boy,” competing in Un Certa…
,” competing in Un Certain Regard. The film turns on the story of an Aboriginal child, who arrives at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun. The new boy’s presence disturbs a delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival. The film stars Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair, and is produced by Kath Shelper, Andrew Upton, Blanchett and Lorenzo de Maio. Veterans is selling in Cannes.
The film score is by your fellow Australians Warren Ellis and Nick Cave. What did you tell them you wanted? I told them I wanted a very small, nurturing score — almost no music. And by the end of the picture assembly [two weeks later], I changed my mind and told them I wanted the biggest score possible. And that’s what they gave me! They have done the most phenomenal job — they are at the peak of their creativity right now and we have been lucky enough to be on the receiving end of their genius.I was terrified about finding this kid.
Your mother, Freda Glynn, was a media pioneer, and you have children that are also in the film industry. My mother taught me that all you need in the dark is your voice. Your voice will light up a room. This knowledge my mother taught me, I’ve passed on to my children.I’ve just finished writing a new script. I’m not sure if it’s any good. It needs some time to age like a good wine.
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