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Bertrand Bonello on His Own Legacy, His Films’ International Finance and His Next Artistic Endeavour: ‘What Drives Me is the Unknown’
The acclaimed French filmmaker of ‘Saint Laurent,’ “The Beast” talks filmmaking challenges ahead of his ECAM Forum retrospective June 12 in Madrid.
Three of his defining works – Cannes Palme d’Or contenders “Tiresia” (2003), “House of Tolerance”(2011) and the Directors’ Fortnight’s “Zombi Child” (2019) – will serve as entry points to his cinematic journey whose latest delivery, the sci-fi melodrama “The Beast,” opened in the U.S. last April via Janus Films and Sideshow after its 2023 Venice world premiere. “ Bertrand Bonello is not only one of the most important contemporary filmmakers but also one of the directors who reflects with the greatest lucidity on the value of creating images today and on the power and prospects of cinema in this paralyzing present,” said ECAM Forum coordinator Alberto Valverde, who created the Madrid tribute with Cineteca Madrid, Filmadrid Festival, together with collection agent DAMA and the Institut Français in Spain. What’s interesting is that when the film screened in Venice in 2023, it actually occurred when AI was making headlines [as part of Hollywood writers’ strike bargaining points].
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