“At 1 am, no one left the room!” : After 25 years, this great director remembers his first show of his shock movie

This is a generation film that is difficult to forget for the first time! 25 years after the original release, the dream Requiem returns to France to the cinema, accompanied by a DVD / Blu-ray release. He is currently seen in sixty cinemas in France, and his return to theaters was a great success, especially during his testimony in Kinematak, in the presence of his director Daren Aronofsky.

The latter was in Paris and the separation met him. The first screening of the film that took place in Cannes in 2000. ”I remember very well. It was a very moving moment for me“, He gives the distribution microphone

We were all very young, eyes wide!

“The projection started too late, as well as 1 hour in the morning and finished at 3am. I remember applause. It was very moving. Hubert Selby was still with us, and it was very moving (He died only 4 years later, on April 26, 2024, a note.). We were all very young, eyes wide. It was a very good experience. “

What is welcome from criticism at the time?

With 4 to 5 (and 5 spectators 4.2) on the press side, the film was undoubtedly marked and resisted. Critics were particularly enthusiastic when he was released, which is given here with some extracts.

“In the form of a long journey that is discontinued with sudden feedback on the most raw reality, Requiem … is one of the most impressive films dedicated to drugs, or rather, all drugs, heroin such as cats, weight loss or television“For example, Aden wrote at that time.”This film is undoubtedly a black diamond, in its raw state and Daren Aronofsky, golden“, For fluctuations.

Does Darren Aronofsky Care Criticism Kote Kote? We asked him a question. “I don’t remember criticizing too much, but it was generally positive. People were quite shocked, but exactly like the rest of the community. I did not feel that they were badly perceived or misunderstood by the film. It was most understood. We were not competing; It was what we call competition.“

There is always this fear of people who leave the room in the skin!

And add: “I don’t know it was less pressure. It was the same pressure for me because I was very young and didn’t understand the difference. They should think that for the main skin of the skin it was very aggressive. There is always this fear of people who leave the room and what skin is known! At 1 am, no one left the room so it went well.“A dream Requiem came out in France a few months after his skin presentation, exactly March 21, 2001.

For the record, the story of REQUIEM’s dream follows Sarah Goldfarbar (Ellen Burstin) who lives alone, and obsessed with the hope that one day she invited her favorite TV program. It is in this perspective that it follows a dragonal diet to make a dressed dress when wearing it when a great evening will come …

Her son Harry (Jared Leto) depends on drugs. With his girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connell) and her boyfriend Troni (Marlon Wess), they drowned their daily lives in the infants of earthly paradise. To look for a better life, the quartet attracts the infernal spiral that runs them, always slightly more, with anxiety and self -development …