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From Paul Schrader to Christophe Honoré, Cannes Directors Keep Making Movies About Their Favorite Subject — Moviemaking
Paul Schrader, Christophe Honoré and Josh Mond are a few of the Cannes filmmakers whose latest movies tackle Hollywood subjects
And Lou Ye’s Special Screenings drama, “An Unfinished Film,” examines a group of Chinese filmmakers who reunite to complete a production. “[But they’re] usually too close to home, too ‘inside baseball.’” For “Oh, Canada,” his main interest was adapting a novel by Russell Banks, author of the book he turned into his 1998 film, “Affliction.” The documentary-in-a-documentary shows a dying filmmaker with a device that allows him and his interviewer to see each other in a frame. Honoré’s “Marcello Mio” was sparked by his idea of making a movie about “an actress going through an identity crisis.” That led him to ask his longtime collaborator Chiara Mastroianni for permission to develop my film around her and her famous father.
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