2023-05-19 18:27:53
Popcorn or dry diet?
Questioned at the entrance office of the Palais des Festivals before handing over the accreditations. Today, the Brazilian filmmaker revealed in 2012 with “the Noises of Recife”.
Brazilian filmmaker revealed in 2012 with the Sounds of Recife, then selected at Cannes with Aquarius et Bacurau, Kleber Mendonça Filho returns this year with a new documentary exploration of Recife, his hometown, in Ghost portraits.
What is your Cannes Film Festival survival kit?
The crazy history of the Festival. Optimism. And water…
Your favorite palme d’or?
The Third Man by Carol Reed, awarded at the third edition of the Festival in 1949.
The film (or sequence) that marked your childhood?
The little boy abducted by aliens in Dating of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg. I was barely older than him.
A film that your parents prevented you from seeing?
The Al Capone Affair by Roger Corman broadcast on television in the 70s.
A favorite scene or a scene that haunts you?
Favorite: The boy and the girl in the forest just before the bombs hit them in Requiem for a Slaughter by Elem Klimov. Haunting: the hospital corridor scene in the exorcist 3 de William Peter Blatty.
Popcorn or dry diet?
Pop-corn.
To be silent or to speak during the projo?
Quiet, but wordless reactions in the direction of a neighbor and a good friend can sometimes be charming.
The soundtrack that sticks in your head?
Stand by Me by Ben E. King, in the film by Rob Reiner. Seen just two hours ago before answering you.
A movie that makes you want to tear up the screen?
Bad Boys II by Michael Bay [on a voulu savoir pourquoi mais Kleber Mendonça Filho n’a pas voulu développer, ndlr].
A film in which you would like to live?
Courtyard window d’Alfred Hitchcock.
When was the last time you cried in a movie theater?
Burden of Dreamsseen in December, the documentary by Les Blank on the set of fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog in the jungle in South America with Klaus Kinski.
Your life becomes a biopic. Who will play your role? And who is behind the camera?
Like a distant dream, signed by my compatriot Eduardo Coutinho, fiction and documentary.
Which movie monster or psychopath do you feel closest to?
Brundlefly dans Fly by David Cronenberg.
The last picture?
A girl on the beach in The sweet life by Fellini who questions Mastroianni from afar about his book. He doesn’t quite know what to say to her.
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