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Inside Element Pictures: How the Irish Production Company Became a European Powerhouse, Yorgos Lanthimos Whisperer and Cannes Triple Threat
The brains behind Ireland's Element Pictures discuss having three films at Cannes this year, including Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Kinds of Kindness.'
“You know, some years you have nothing for Cannes,” he says, speaking from Element’s breezy, white-walled Dublin headquarters, located above an outdoor clothing shop and a jeweler on the Irish capital’s busy O’Connell Street, where it also runs its distribution arm Volta Pictures and the programming for the popular arthouse Light House Cinema, which it has operated since 2012. But for anyone who has been keeping an eye on Element over the last decade, this edition of Cannes is merely another unprecedented milestone in a trajectory littered in both glory — from Oscars, to BAFTAs, Golden Lions, Palme d’Ors, Emmys and more — and a growing assortment of international filmmaking icons eager to collaborate (including new addition, the Venice-winning Audrey Diwan, now attached to direct “The Marriage Portrait” for them). Lanthimos, it should also be noted, has contributed more than any other director to helping furnish Element’s office, which boasts two impressively high-backed Windsor chairs, a weird reptilian coat stand and an oil painting of Dafoe, all swiped from the set of “Poor Things” (as for the film’s grand piano, which Stone’s character Bella Baxter plays with her feet, Lowe took that home).
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