Prime Minister’s Day yesterday in Biarritz! The Basque city is hosting the first edition of a brand new festival aimed at young people called Nouvelles Vagues.
The event will showcase films that present the stories of youth or question the place of youth in society, and will welcome many young talents and for the first time, throughout this edition, which will take place from June 28 to July 2, 2023.
To determine the winners of the competition, a prestigious jury was assembled, combining different films, such as Molly Manning Walker’s How to Have Sex, which was already noticed and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival last May, or the French comedy. Super stuffed.
Before the competition, the place was given to the opening ceremony, which was presented with great elegance by the actress Anna Girardo, one of the founders of this new festival.
The first film without competition is directed by Tina Sater. This is his first feature film after several plays. The reality is an adaptation of the work he staged on Broadway, the critically acclaimed play, This is the roomInstalled in 2021.
The director, who was in Biarritz, said he was honored that the festival highlighted his film on this opening night: “I would like to thank the Nouvelles Vagues Festival, the Metropolitan, for giving me this great privilege to present my film this evening, for the first time in France.“
Reality tells an incredible true story that is unknown in France. On June 3, 2017, Reality Winner, 25, was questioned by two FBI agents at her home.
This banal and sometimes surreal conversation, with each dialogue taken from an authentic interrogation transcript, paints a complex portrait of the American millennial, US Air Force veteran, yoga teacher, and animal lover. Travel and share photos on social networks. . Why is the FBI interested in him? Who really is reality?
The film is based on authentic transcriptions of FBI records. “For Genesis, it just so happens that this information was first discussed on June 3, 2017, and this girl’s name, Reality Winner, which is too weird a name to be true, Film director Tina Setter explained to the audience at the Nouvelles Vagues festival.
Like everyone else, like all Americans, we didn’t notice anything but his name. We thought it might be someone who won a reality show or someone who participated in a TV show. We didn’t really pay attention to what they were saying about him.“
and add:Only after 6 months I saw what happened. There was a recording of his interrogation in the press. When I read it, I was immediately captivated by this incredible story, all the dichotomies that appeared in the character of this young woman.
Transcribed through this text in June 2017, we suddenly plunged into this person’s room in Georgia. This whole story was unfolding before our eyes and it was an absolutely irresistible opportunity for me to make a film.“.
Reality is played by Sidney Sweeney, one of the stars of Euphoria and seen in Season 1 of White Lotus. He very accurately portrays this young woman behind the wheel of her car, who seems a priori untroubled, American by the way… and whom we immediately empathize with.
Two FBI agents knock on his car window, a conversation begins between them, and a standoff begins. The film offers a mise en abyme: the scene unfolds before our eyes and the FBI procedure through transcription. The audience is immersed in this young woman’s anxieties and questions and will be hooked until the end of the film.
Reality will be released in France on August 16, 2023.
Source: Allocine
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