How French director Eva Husson dealt with the 'venom' pelted at her new film via nparts
Eva Husson did not have an easy time at the Cannes Film Festival last May. The French filmmaker was there with just her second feature film, Girls of the Sun, entered in the prestigious competition. But as one of the few female directors in attendance that year , the pressure to succeed was intense. And her father had died three days before the premiere.
We’re talking at the Toronto International Film Festival, an altogether friendlier affair. Cannes awards a golden palm that looks like it was struck by ancient Greek goldsmiths; TIFF has a people’s choice award named after a Dutch beer. Husson is in better spirits here, still convinced that Girls of the Sun was the film she wanted to make.
The director steeped herself in the genre before filming, and drew particular inspiration from Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line, though they’re very different movies. She continues: “My one guideline was subjectivity. I wanted the movie to reflect as much as possible the emotional journey of Bahar, the main character. I could have never made a naturalistic movie. I’m just not wired that way; I don’t see the world that way.”
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