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Actor Ariane Labed Wants to Explore ‘How People Live’ in Feature Debut, ‘September Says’
Actor Ariane Labed on her debut feature ‘September Says’ at Cannes: ‘Camera movement is a form of choreography.’
Herein is the most concise and expansive way to encompass a career with many footholds, a professional path that kicked off in Greece — where Labed became the emblematic star of the early 2010’s Greek Weird Wave — before winding towards American indie fare from the likes of Richard Linklater, followed by lead roles on primetime French dramas. The road now leads to Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, where Labed premieres her feature directorial debut, “ September Says,” a sisterhood fable with gothic overtones backed by Irish and British producers.As a storyteller, she says, “questions of belonging and place innately appeal to me.” But when defining herself, “labels of country and language don’t matter at all.” If Labed’s aversion to labels extends to her latest work (“You might call it a genre film,” she says, “only I don’t quite understand the concept”) and to her own position on set (“I’m opposed to the idea of the all-powerful auteur because filmmaking is a collective art”) the multi-hyphenate proudly wears the title of feminist.
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