Ari Aster and his Eddington The actors unpack what the film says about America.
The filmmaker was joined by Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Micheal Ward and Luke Grimes at the Cannes press conference on Saturday after the first in the film on Friday evening.
The film takes place in May 2020 and takes place in a small fictitious town of New Mexico, where local sheriff Joe Cross (Phoenix) decides to run against the charismatic and comfortable mayor Ted Garcia (Pascal). While Joe’s campaign is intensifying, the pandemic pandemonium with media coverage and publications on social networks attach the flames of the right plot, the rise in racial calculations and protests against police brutality after the death of George Floyd.
“I wrote this film in a state of fear and anxiety about the world, and I wanted to try to retreat and show what it does to live in a world where no one can agree on what is real,” said Aster about themes Eddington. “In the past 20 years, we have fallen into this age of hyper individualism … I wanted to make a film about what America feels at that time, and it was bad. I am very worried. We have to re-engage with each other. It is the only hope.”
“We are on a dangerous road and I have the impression of having an experience that has gone wrong,” he added. “It looks like there is no way to get out … I think people feel very helpless and very frightening.”
Pascal said that ASTER felt like a “denunciator” about what’s going on in the United States “I am so used to lentils over us from outside, because there are so many ways to see the questions of politics, sociology, our very, very complex culture and with Ari’s film, it was as if we had a taupe, a denunciator – someone inside.
Pascal said in response to Trump’s repression and expulsion widespread on Latin American immigrants in the United States: “He is obviously very scary for an actor who participated in the film to talk about questions like this. It’s far too intimidating a question for me to really address myself. Chile.
A journalist asked the group: “I have a film festival … and we had some of our guests from other countries who were afraid of coming to America. Even Canada’s guests were afraid of coming because Canada’s universities sent messages to teachers on the Canada border crossing in America.
Pascal replied, causing applause: “Fear is the way they win. Continue to tell the stories and continue to express yourself. People trying to scare you, fuck these people. ”
Stone and Pascal said that Aster’s script validated their fears about their country and what you can find online. “I had the impression that he had written something that was all my worst fears made with regard to this locking experience,” said Pascal. “This building towards a sense of reality without attachment, then entering a chapter which becomes a point of no return. As, there is no return. I was definitively overwhelmed by this fear. It is pleasant to confirm it by Ari.”
Stone added: “The only additional thing that frightened me a little in the algorithm system (Internet) was to look for some of the things in this film that had not been in my algorithm and, unfortunately, added them to my algorithm, because once you have started to googler, you are starting to see more and more things.”
Aster and his casting received a mute response during the first of the film in the film A24, with a standing ovation of 5 minutes for one of the most anticipated films of the festival. However, a Joaquin Phoenix in tears has obtained great applause from the crowd of the Lumiere theater.
“I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what to think,” said Aster after the film’s end, while thanking all his collaborators. “I feel very privileged to be here. It is a dream come true. ” He then added to the laughter: “I don’t know. Sorry?”
The Hollywood ReporterThe chief critic of cinema David Rooney said of Eddington In his review: “Essentially a modern Westerner Marbled with a vein of dark comedy, the film is neither the suspense nor funny enough to work as. Above all, it is a slog of distancing.”
