Premiering out of Venice’s Horizons Extra sidebar on Tuesday, ”My Night” marks the feature debut of Antoinette Boulat, a leading casting directors behind recent films like “The French Dispatch,” “B…
Premiering out of Venice’s Horizons Extra sidebar on Tuesday, ”My Night” marks the feature debut of Antoinette Boulat, a leading casting directors behind recent films like “The French Dispatch,” “Bergman Island” and “Non-Fiction,” now making the jump behind the lens.
“Building on that point, I thought, the character could find herself in mourning because mourning gives you a distorted view – you’re in a parallel world, you’re distanced from others – and at the same time it offers an odd kind of strength. Pain gives you harder skin and sharper vision.” When it came time to cast the lead, the director needed someone who could reflect the less carefree Paris of the past few years, without coming off like too much of a drip. “I didn’t want someone who looked depressed, or someone too prissy,” she says.
“One time, Léos Carax turned down an actor I proposed by simply saying, ‘I just don’t want to film her.’ And that’s quite simply it: You have to want to film the person you choose.”
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