THE MEASURE OF A MAN FILM PROFESSIONAL

THE MEASURE OF A MAN FILM PROFESSIONAL

I had already filmed nonвЂђ professional actors in tiny roles, and every time I had the feeling that I was getting closer to a truth вЂ“ which is what interests me the most in my work. IвЂ™ve had the idea for this sort of clash for a long time now. One might see your intuition to have Vincent Lindon work alongside non-professional actors as odd. I also had to rethink my set design and staging, as well as my themes. There was also the affirmation that films could be made differently at a time when the industry is seriously questioning how it finances production. Content, style and financing echoed one another, and I liked this coherence. Not every film can be made this way, but this one allowed it.

I went even further and told Christophe Rossignon (the Producer) and Vincent Lindon that I wanted us to coвЂђproduce the project by imposing a limited budget and investing the better part of our salaries in the film, while paying the crew the normal rate. Right from the beginning of the writing process, I knew the film would be shot with a tiny crew, and nonвЂђprofessional actors would work with Vincent. He was the ideal travel partner for this project.ДЄt what point did the form of the film become clear? His analysis and perspective on social and political themes are very lucid. I wrote the script with Olivier Gorce, someone IвЂ™d known for a long time but whom IвЂ™d never worked with. The next step was to observe the brutality of the mechanisms and exchanges ruling our world by juxtaposing one manвЂ™s humanity вЂ“ a vulnerable man with no job security вЂ“ with the violence of our society.

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