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Karim Aïnouz on Cannes Competition Entry’s ‘Motel Destino,’ Its Joyful Sex and How It Was Made by ‘Almost an Army of Youth’
‘Motel Destino’ is not just a picture but a 10 year-old project to fire up a creative economy in Brazil’s North East.
Shot between his directing Alicia Vikander in “Firebrand” and Kristen Stewart in “Rosebushpruning,” “Motel Destino,” which bows in Cannes Competition on May 22, can be seen as a return by Brazil’s now most international director to his Brazilian roots. “I was really interested in a kind of Brazilian interpretation of melodrama and noir cinema, how to take genre, which begins in Hollywood, and appropriate it make it local and ours,” Aïnouz tells Variety. “Motel Destino,” for example, can trace its origins to Cena 15, a development lab co-founded by Aïnouz and fellow filmmakers Sergio Machado (“Lower City”) and Marcelo Gomes “Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures”) in 2013 in Ceará capital Fortaleza, aimed at firing up the creative economy of the Brazilian North-East.
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