Director Michel Hazanavicius shares why he chose to make 2012 Best Picture winner, TheArtist, a silent film during day one of the 2020 Sarajevo Film Festival Masterclass Series in the VarietyStreamingRoom 26th_SFF
Hazanavicius is this year’s jury president for the festival. The conversation and subsequent audience Q&A, moderated by Ben Croll, covered the director’s earliest film styles, success with “The first half of Hazanavicius’ career, after interning with French sketch group Les Nuls, involved a genre he calls “détournement,” which translates to “hijacking” in English. The style, somewhat similar to parody or spoofing, sometimes involved making collage films or satirizing a film’s styles.
The series is set in the 1950s, which Hazanavicius describes as a time focused on straight white men, and difficult for anyone with identities that deviated from those expectations. Some of the film’s characters match those views, sharing racist or homophobic beliefs. And though some may interpret the comments as validating their bigoted beliefs, he said the characters’ views are meant to be looked at through a critical lens to satirize biases from that time period.
“I love the classical directors that come from the silent era and for one reason, because they can tell the story with images,” he said. “And that gives room for the dialogues to be dialogues. Dialogues are not here to tell the story. You have a lot of room with dialogues when the story is told by the images.”
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