“His fate has changed in two hours”: the artist’s director returns in 2014 in the painful failure of this movie

Thanks to the publication of its beautiful beautiful animated film publication, director Michel Hazanavichius agreed to his introspective discretion in the latest issue of the magazine Laser years. Exercise great sincerity, its beginning, its successes and its failures.

Among them, he was received by Skating in 2014, which had the above energy. After the artist’s triumph in 2011, followed by the production of a movie segment in the Sketch Les Infidèles in 2012, Michel Hazanavichius signs a search, which occurs during the Second Czech war, in 1999, and tells the fate of the four characters.

“Thermal shock to collect was very difficult”

The film presented in the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival was badly released, with its press. The history of the festival can also be punctual with this type of examples, obviously always bad …

“I went back to the skin ” And if the morning press was very violent, in the evening it was very warm, during the projection, until the rise of applause, and leads to a final position even longer than the artist. But evil was done: the loudly hostile reaction of journalists killed.

The idea came after the consistent successes of two OSS 117, which allowed me to do a little what I wanted. I hesitated to write a movie about Chechnya and a silent movie in black – white; And this is the second thing I first became.

Oscar is unlikely to encourage the artist to start an equally incredible project around a conflict that the protagonists were not Western. To make a war movie, you need money and money to make money, you need famous actors. So I hired Bérénice Bejo Sister Annette BeningEven the real protagonists were Chechens and Russians.

I have decided everything in Georgia in a man, using, you will find irony, military equipment in perfect condition, weapons, tanks, helicopters that left Russia at that time. Before going to Cannes, everyone loved searching. But he was not strong enough to resist the press session and his fate changed in 2 hours.

The refusal that he annoyed me instantly made meOrson Welles * Citizen Kane Have Max PekasAnd I admit that it was very difficult to collect thermal shock. Whatever we can say, I have no impression that it is mistaken about the importance of history, because what is happening in Ukraine today is directly due to our great trouble in Chechnya.

Suggery’s failure in the box office

Unfortunately, not that the press that did not join the search. In France, he then attracted only 73,331 spectators, and the film was scheduled for 20 minutes from the version presented in the skin. This is the worst attitude that you have ever received by the filmmaker. The bitter failure and this film is vulnerable to $ 25 million, despite its mistakes, given that its director’s will came out of his comfort zone and emphasized the war, many of which looked at him at the time.

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