british actress tilda swintonin competition in the current Cannes Film Festival with three thousand years of longingof George Millermade a strong plea in favor of the big screen: “That’s my flag.”
“I don’t come from the small screen, but from the biggest possible screen. That is my flag and the flag that I wave,” said the interpreter on Saturday, May 21, at a press conference during the 75th edition of the contest, which runs from May 17 to 28.
Cannes, she said, “is possibly the most beautiful screen in the world” and assured that she is always proud to present her work at this festival.
His first film in competition was Ariain 1987, within a long list in which they are also broken flowers (2005), The man from London (2007), We need to talk about Kevin (2011), Only lovers left alive (2013) or last year The French dispatch.
The big screen, he added, “never lies.” “It’s a very forensic space, reflecting every detail.”
The controversy surrounding the small screen and the platforms has surrounded Cannes for years. Following the 2017 Netflix two-film competition controversy, –ok Y The Meyerowitz Stories– premiered directly on television, the festival decided to include the obligation to go through the theaters to be able to aspire to a prize.
Swinton, also starring in okinterpret in three thousand years of longing to Alithea Binnie, a woman of letterslonely but satisfied with her life, who on a business trip to Turkey, where she goes to give a conference, meets a genie from the lamp (Idris Elbe), with whose appearance the story constantly integrates mythology into fiction.
“George said to me, ‘We’re going to make a little movie, don’t worry. In a room, a conversation between two people, and when I saw it last night it’s huge, it was overwhelming, but it makes it feel real.’
For a performer, he added, it doesn’t matter if you have to act in a big battle or in a room, because “the important thing is that it is authentic.”
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Swinton pointed out that he does not choose roles, “but people.” He met Miller five years ago in Cannes, on the festival’s 70th anniversary, when at the celebration dinner, where he said he didn’t know many people, he started talking to the filmmaker. “Within 15 minutes I realized who he was. We became friends and a year later he sent me the script”. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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