FRED Film Radio - Interview with filmmaker Pascale Ferran on BIRD PEOPLE

FESTIVAL SYNOPSYS - In the Paris airport zone, two strangers are trying to make sense out of their lives: an American engineer under professional and emotional pressure who decides to radically change the course of his life, and a young hotel chambermaid who faces a life-altering supernatural experience.

 

 

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Matt Micucci: Despite the differences with your last film Lady Chatterley, I noticed some similarities that film and you latest work.

Pascale Ferran: It's like Francois Truffaut said, often we make our film in opposition with the last one. [...] Although Lady Chatterley was a period piece, I sought to make the emotions absolutely current and contemporary. After it, I sought to make a film set in the modern world because it is a world in constant mutation - because of the technology, because of cell phones and the internet, things that are changing our behaviour. [...]

 

MM: The film is split into two. How did this structure come about?

PF: In making a portrait of today's world, as an artist I was encouraged and almost forced to make a collage because of modern life, our activities [...] We see this all the time, often we are lost in our own thoughts daydreaming and suddenly out cell phone rings and we are propelled into a totally different time. [...] We have all these files open into our mental desktop, so dealing with contemporary life authorised me this boldness in the construction of the narrative structure. [...]

 

MM: So, you're welcoming technology into your cinema?

PF: Yes, absolutely, even in my personal life I am a little awkward when I use technology, it is much less a part of my life than most people [...] There are many things about today's life that drives me crazy, the growing inequalities, the over abundance of everything we see around us in the consumerist world, and those are things that cause division. But at the same time I am willing to accept things that are new, that create relationships and bring us together [...]

 

 

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