‘As a Woman You Have to Bang Your Fist Twice as Hard on the Table to Be Heard’ – French Director Louise Carrin
11.04.2022 - 12:43
/ variety.com
Trinidad Barleycorn French director Louise Carrin, whose home for the past 13 years has been Lausanne, Switzerland, has an urge to create every day, she tells Variety. Moviemaking being a long process, for about 10 years now she has found equal satisfaction in music. She is about to release her debut rap album “Banana Part” under her alias Lweez.
On Friday, she was on stage at the Visions du Réel film festival, in Nyon, Switzerland, to present her first feature film “Big Boy” (“La Cour des grands”). She spoke to Variety about her work.Selected for the festival’s national competition, the moving film follows Amadou Diallo, a Guinean refugee, shortly after he arrived, on his own, in Lausanne. His brother died on the road to exile.
His sister, the only family he has left, stayed behind. Amadou is 16 and his daily life is spent between the asylum seekers’ center and integration classes. Six months of filming in 2018 captured him adjusting to his new environment, bonding with his classmates, and even falling in love with Senawbar, an Afghan refugee.
“Accompanied loneliness,” as Carrin, names it, is a recurring theme in her work: people whose feelings are multiplied tenfold because of their social isolation. Her signature could also be a tendency for “in camera” – that is, behind closed doors – situations, and marginalized characters, she sums up. Her “Papillons noirs” (Visions du Réel, 2013) was filmed inside the car of an illegal cab driver.
While “Venusia,” which got her the Principal Prize at the Oberhausen short film fest 2016, was shot in a luxury brothel in Geneva. Years of piano, classical and modern dance, parents who are fans of French and Italian cinema: Carrin grew up with art. Other directors who made a strong
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