Marrakech International Film Festival
“Conversation with” actor and director Simon Baker at the 20th Marrakech IFF
Simon Baker: "At the moment, I'm enjoying having a bit of a Renaissance acting again for myself".
Listeners:
Top listeners:
00:00
00:00
volume_up
chevron_left
-
play_arrow
ENGLISH Channel 01 If English is your language, or a language you understand, THIS IS YOUR CHANNEL !
-
play_arrow
ITALIAN Channel 02 Se l’italiano è la tua lingua, o una lingua che conosci, QUESTO È IL TUO CANALE!
-
play_arrow
EXTRA Channel 03 FRED Film Radio channel used to broadcast press conferences, seminars, workshops, master classes, etc.
-
play_arrow
GERMAN Channel 04 Wenn Ihre Sprache Deutsch ist, oder Sie diese Sprache verstehen, dann ist das IHR KANAL !
-
play_arrow
POLISH Channel 05
-
play_arrow
SPANISH Channel 06 Si tu idioma es el español, o es un idioma que conoces, ¡ESTE ES TU CANAL!
-
play_arrow
FRENCH Channel 07 Si votre langue maternelle est le français, ou si vous le comprenez, VOICI VOTRE CHAINE !
-
play_arrow
PORTUGUESE Channel 08
-
play_arrow
ROMANIAN Channel 09 Dacă vorbiţi sau înţelegeţi limba română, ACESTA ESTE CANALUL DUMNEAVOASTRĂ!
-
play_arrow
SLOVENIAN Channel 10
-
play_arrow
ENTERTAINMENT Channel 11 FRED Film Radio Channel used to broadcast music and live shows from Film Festivals.
-
play_arrow
BULGARIAN Channel 16 Ако българският е вашият роден език, или го разбирате, ТОВА Е ВАШИЯТ КАНАЛ !
-
play_arrow
CROATIAN Channel 17 Ako je hrvatski tvoj jezik, ili ga jednostavno razumiješ, OVO JE TVOJ KANAL!
-
play_arrow
LATVIAN Channel 18
-
play_arrow
DANISH Channel 19
-
play_arrow
HUNGARIAN Channel 20
-
play_arrow
DUTCH Channel 21
-
play_arrow
GREEK Channel 22
-
play_arrow
CZECH Channel 23
-
play_arrow
LITHUANIAN Channel 24
-
play_arrow
SLOVAK Channel 25
-
play_arrow
ICELANDIC Channel 26 Ef þú talar, eða skilur íslensku, er ÞETTA RÁSIN ÞÍN !
-
play_arrow
INDUSTRY Channel 27 FRED Film Radio channel completely dedicated to industry professionals.
-
play_arrow
EDUCATION Channel 28 FRED Film Radio channel completely dedicated to film literacy.
-
play_arrow
SARDU Channel 29 Si su sardu est sa limba tua, custu est su canale chi ti deghet!
-
play_arrow
“Conversation with” at the 20th Marrakech IFF, interview with actor Willem Dafoe Bénédicte Prot
Marrakech IFF, an interview with director and screenwriter François Ozon
French director François Ozon gives us some insight on what shaped his impressive career
-
play_arrow
Marrakech IFF, an interview with director and screenwriter François Ozon Bénédicte Prot
Acclaimed French director François Ozon, whose incredibly versatile and prolific career is the focus of one of the captivating Conversations curated by the 21st Marrakech International Film Festival, sheds light on what has guided him through his formidable, and formidably multifaceted career since his first short films and his debut feature “Sitcom” (1998). The author of “Under the Sand” (2000), “Swimming Pool” (2003), “Potiche” (2010), and “By the Grace of God” (2019), to name but a few, explains how he relies on his instincts and how he knew very early on he wanted to be a filmmaker.
Ozon, a regular at Cannes, Berlin, and the European Film Awards, winner of the Golden Shell in San Sebastián for In the House (2012), reminisces about the shooting of 8 Women (2002) and his classes with Éric Rohmer, whose awareness of production-related matters he retained as a crucial lesson for the rest of his own career. He also underlines the virtues of trying one’s hand at short film first, to give one’s cinema solid foundations.
On frequently exploring the female universe
“Maybe it’s a way to hide myself, you know. One of my first films, Under the Sun, was about a fifty-year-old woman. The film was about my own experience, about grief, and working with a fifty-year-old woman like Charlotte Rampling gave me the opportunity, maybe, to show more easily some very personal things. Because I’m not the kind of director who makes autobiographical movies – I need to keep a kind of distance, and maybe with women, it’s easier for me.”
On the first film experience which changed his life
“It was Roberto Rossellini’s Germany, Year Zero. I saw the film when I was eight years old, on television, on the programme ‘Cinéma de minuit’, at midnight, although my parents had said no… The films I used to watch were Walt Disney movies, films for children, and at this moment, for the first time, I was watching a film for adults, but about a young boy who was my age, and suddenly, I discovered that cinema could be something else, other than entertainment, and I was so deeply touched by this young boy who tries to survive in the ruins of Germany, and at the end commits suicide. It was so powerful, so disturbing, but I loved it! I think it is at this moment that I realised that cinema could be something else, and I think my desire to make movies unconsciously started at this point.“
Related Posts
Marrakech International Film Festival
“Toll (Pedágio)”, interview with the director Carolina Markowicz and actress Maeve Jinkings
Carolina Markowicz about "Toll", competing in Marrakech: 'It's a kind of hypocrisy that happens a lot in Brazil. We did have a president who said he'd prefer to have a dead son than a gay son.'
Marrakech International Film Festival
“Conversation with” Tilda Swinton, performer, screenwriter, producer at the Marrakech IFF
Masterclass in Marrakech. Tilda Swinton: "I feel embarrassed to describe myself as an actor, because I'm not really interested in interpreting".
Marrakech International Film Festival
“Conversation with” at the 20th Marrakech IFF, interview with actor Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe ahead of his masterclass in Marrakech: "I like to be part of someone's vocabulary".
Channel posts
Marrakech International Film Festival
“I’m Still Here”, an interview with director Walter Salles
At the 21st Marrakech IFF, Brazilian director Walter Salles unveiled a leitmotiv in his approach: "When I'm shooting, if there's a day where everything goes according to plan, I feel disappointed."
The Winners of the European Film Awards 2024
Discover the winners of the European Film Awards 2024, including Jacques Audiard's Emilia Pérez, Karla Sofía Gascón, and Abou Sangare. A celebration of the best in European cinema and storytelling.
The Light by Tom Tykwer will open the 75th Berlinale
Tom Tykwer’s The Light starring Lars Eidinger and Nicolette Krebitz, will open the 75th Berlinale on February 13, 2025.
Marrakech International Film Festival
“The Order”, an interview with director Justin Kurzel
The tension in "The Order", says Justin Kurzel, comes from Jude Law's character running out of time to prevent Bob Mathews from achieving the kind of destiny that he is wanting.
