0:04LES AMIS DU CINÉMA
0:05WITH CÉLINE SALLETTE
0:06We've just seen the film "Imago" at The Critics' Week.
0:10What did you think?
0:11Frankly, I was really overwhelmed by the film,
0:15truly amazed by this director's approach.
0:19I thought everything was brilliant and intelligent.
0:21In fact, it's a documentary, it's a self-fiction.
0:23His mother gifts him a plot of land on the border with Chechnya, because she wants him to settle down, get married and have kids.
0:32And we understand that it's going to be complicated for him to carry out the family injunction: his father's, his mother's, his neighbors'.
0:40We understand that he's rearchitecting his family, on this land, in this place.
0:46And it's really beautiful.
0:48Was there an other film about exile that marked you?
0:50When we talked about it, I really thought of that cartoon I love, called "The Wild Robot".
0:56And it's a film about the exile of a robot, after all. But in fact, it's a film about our ability to adapt, our ability to rebuild ourselves, or to simply build ourselves up,
1:50and become who you are.
1:52Is there a memory from a screening that really moved you?
1:56But for example, my screening of "Niki" here last year, it was very emotional for me.
2:02Did you have any godmothers when you started out? And what did they tell you?
2:07When I started wanting to write, for example Raoul Peck, and Bertrand Bonello accepted to read the 40 pages I'd written, their feedbacks were extremely encouraging.
2:14I remember Raoul Peck said to me: "It's good to want to jump 10 metres, but you have to jump 2 metres first".
2:19So, for example: "Go ahead, make a short film". And the short-film exercise, which is a very special exercise, because it's hard to write a short story.
2:27Not to put a twist on it, it depends on what you like or what you're fond of but you really have to think in specific way, in terms of format.
2:34It also fascinated me to ask myself: "What do you do in fifteen minutes?"
2:38When you were making your film, was there a moment you realised you were putting a piece of advice into practice?
2:44For me, what's the most beautiful thing, because it's also my experience as an actress, is when something happens. Something you haven't quite decided, something you can't control, something that's better than what you might have thought. And that, as a filmmaker, as an actress and as a human being, I think it's the most beautiful thing of all.
3:39Everything will serve a purpose. The delay will serve a purpose. The cloud will serve a purpose.
3:45The failure will serve a purpose. In fact, every mistakes, if you know how to be calm and welcome them,
3:52become treasures, there are treasures everywhere. Just don't get in the way of life. If you block the way with your ego, your will,
4:00you prevent the natural process of life from happening. Normally, there's nothing wrong with life.
