“I’m the protagonist, it had never happened to me before. And I also act in French, ”he says Dario Argento amused in the De Paolis studios, where he is preparing to return to work as a director for the film Black glasses. But in the meantime from the top hat of the Cannes Film Festival comes out surprisingly, out of competition, Vortex by Gaspar Noé, about the last days of life of two old lovers, and the actor is our thrill teacher.
“I can only talk about my role, a film critic. At night I happen to dream of some scenes we shot. Gaspar makes a transgressive cinema, which comes from the bowels. The film is about cinema, I run a trade magazine, like i Cinema notebooks, things in extinction, the last of the caravan ».
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Will the cinema withstand the onslaught of platforms?
«I think so, when pop music arrived it was said that the opera would be dead and instead it still excites us. Blockbusters, junk and some auteur films will resist ».
Your role in «Vortex»?
«It takes me back to my first job. At 20 I was a critic a Evening country. I liked Hitchcock and westerns, John Ford, John Wayne, it wasn’t easy in a Communist newspaper. Once I wrote about music and was not tender with Mina, the boss asked me to soften the tones. When I went to interview Alberto Sordi, on the set of Excuse me, are you for or against?, he stared at me, made a face at his help and said: what do you say, can you go? I didn’t understand. My handsome, he explained in his big voice, we have just hired you. He gave me the role of an unlikely altar boy. ‘
As an actor, what a grade you give.
“I don’t make ten films. However, directing the actors, I consider myself good. I have a habit: when you see the killer’s hands in my films, they are mine, a fetishist cameo ».
“I’ve been there seven or eight times. Find it all, even Inuit filmmakers from the Arctic. The crowds? I’m used to it. It is on the set that I do not enjoy it, it is a job that you do with clerical meticulousness. I feel at ease in the darkness of the room ».
Which film you love the most and the one you love the least?
«Less, I would say The nine-tailed cat, more more Suspiria e Opera, the most complex, tiring and expensive, the one that gave me the most problems with censorship. Then there is the regret for the Don chisciotte, which is fantasy and I make an idealist cinema, of visions, nightmares and many readings ».
“We’ve been talking about it for about twenty years. I didn’t remember it anymore. One day my daughter Asia was at home with me, she was looking for my diary and she found this script. He found it beautiful ».
“A blind person and a Chinese child become friends after a car accident in which the child has lost his parents. They are being chased by a killer. It’s my return to thriller after a long time, I hadn’t been to the cinema for nine years. It is a mysterious film, it has something disturbing about it. I will shoot it in Rome and in the Lazio countryside which is rocky, harsh, not as sweet as the Tuscan one. The protagonist is Ilenia Pastorelli. It was supposed to be Asia but it can’t, she has a film in France. But she gave me a part, she is the instructor of the blind ».
Asia in her book speaks of her with great affection, even if you did not speak to each other when she was expecting her daughter AnnaLou.
“I remember we fought when he didn’t The dealer. It’s a fluctuating relationship but over the years we love each other more and more. We are similar, two irregular outside the system ».
“I don’t feel them. Directors live long, looks at Polanski. I am addicted to loneliness and have not softened. Am I afraid of dying? Not for now. I have long feared being killed in my sleep. I have a constant dialogue with my dark side ».
June 18, 2021 (change June 18, 2021 | 08:19)
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