PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Chloë Sevigny, director of the film Carmen.
FRED meets Chloë Sevigny, director of Carmen, one of the two Miu Miu Women’s Tales shorts screened at this year’s Venice Film Festival in the Giornate degli Autori section and the 13th of the series. The film is inspired by life on the road; its protagonist is a female comic. Sevigny tells us she was partially inspired by Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy. She also talks about the commitment of becoming a director, which she tells us is something that she always wanted to do.
Carmen: What do you need to be, to be really funny? Stand-up comedienne Carmen Lynch knows what it takes. As she wanders from make-up mirror to performance stage, via Portland’s woozy streets and an all-night grocery store, we’re given an intimate insight into a talented individual. The city’s saturated lights and dying, showbiz neon become Carmen’s passing backdrop. She confronts herself – her looks, her dreams, the weird rituals of mating in the modern world – by confronting her audiences. Sometimes they laugh with her. Sometimes they don’t laugh at all.
For the official page of the film, click here.