Jan Gassmann will bring his newest film “99 Moons” to the ACID sidebar at Cannes, a voyeuristic glimpse into the lives of lovers in head-on collision
Jan Gassmann
I had just had a huge breakup and I wrote a short story, which stayed with me for a few years and I never had the courage to make a movie out of it. And when I met my producers Reto and Lukas, we were talking about another project but suddenly I remembered this short story. I showed them the text and they were interested, but then it took another six or seven years to write it.
Those six fragments are like memories and very subjective. Everything in between, the moons that pass when they don’t see each other – have no importance to me, because Frank and Bigna are separated. It’s the story of their love, not of their life. I always thought about their love as an addiction, they are high on each other and then go cold turkey, hoping not to meet again…
Bigna is always trying to be in control: in her sex life as well as in her work life, but she also has this need to put herself in danger. This is something that connects my two protagonists, this poetic death wish, which Batailledescribes like this: “Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death.” That’s what their love is: The beauty of destruction, the beauty of a natural disaster, while being aware of all the casualties.
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