Valeria Bruni Tedeschi on Mixing Personal Memory And Fiction in ‘Forever Young’
23.05.2022 - 21:29
/ variety.com
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentWhen Italian-French actress and director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was in her twenties she had the formative experience of attending the prestigious acting school at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre, France, led by late great auteur Patrice Chéreau. Her fifth directorial effort, “Forever Young,” which is in competition in Cannes, is a tribute to that time and, ultimately, to any young person’s passion for the theatre. Tedeschi spoke to Variety in Cannes about how she mixed remembrances and re-invention to make this film.
Excerpts.There was no preset recipe. What we [she and Noémie Lvovsky] did is start from autobiographical material and then elaborate on it. We changed it, mixed things up.
Did some rethinking. Added to it, then subtracted. We had fun with reality to make up a story that has its rules and coherence. Reality is chaotic.
The elaboration of a screenplay means putting order in the chaos and trying to see things about our existences more clearly. Well, I’ll tell you that first of all we had to decide if we wanted to keep these characters because it was difficult for those who did not attend that school to understand who they were. Usually in a school there is a single director.
But in this school there were these two [leading] figures that we decided to keep, because they were the particularity of this school. This was not an academic school. It was a weird, alternative school.
A sort of laboratory. One of the particularities is that the head of the acting school was this very brilliant director Pierre Romans and the director of the theatre and the school’s top chief was Patrice Chéreau. These two men had been together in the past and they were still a couple in a
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