Luca Guadagnino slams “absurdity” of Armie Hammer’s hints

Luca Guadagnino couldn’t escape Armie Hammer’s question at the Zurich Film Festival, where the “A Tribute To…” award was celebrated.

“David Kaganic and Teresa Park, our writer and producer, have been working on ‘Bones and All’ since the book was released. For several years, probably while we were filming ‘Call Me By Your Name’,” he said during his master classes when asked about the “Carnivores” scandal. humans” last.

“It was to be directed by my great colleague Antonio Campos, but he decided not to. That’s when they gave me the script. Any association with that kind of insinuation and absurdity is unreasonable.”

Guadagnino’s Zurich Award is the latest in a series of helmsman awards, which were recently honored in Venice and at Göteborg earlier this year.

“After I turned 50, I started accepting honorary awards. They had given me some before, but I thought it was strange to be honored for something you still do.”

“I am practical. I love awards, because they are recognition and everyone wants to be recognized. I don’t look at them, though. They are all in my wardrobe.”

The Italian director spoke of his childhood spent in Ethiopia and then Sicily, crediting the former with his “sense of space and light”. But it took some time for him to come to terms with the latter.

“When I left, I must have been 22. I felt stuck there. I had never had an accent, so I was treated suspiciously even back then. Now, I feel a great connection to it.”

However, it keeps moving, with star Timothée Chalamet recording his first photo shoot in the United States

“The idea that the United States wants to present to the world has a lot to do with the images they create of themselves. These images have been sold like steroids. I tried to go in there and do what the great foreign filmmakers did in the 1930s and 1940s. They immersed themselves in it.”

He also wanted to adapt his gaze to that of his characters, a pair of cannibals fleeing themselves.

“When Marin [played by Taylor Russell] You get to Indiana, I think, you see this boy, Lee, for the first time. She smells something powerful, another eater, and is surrounded by the vastness of the American landscape. (…) When they go to Nebraska, it makes Lee finally release the pain of his being. It’s the movie’s scariest and most terrifying moment, but it’s also the most tender and romantic.”

He said that the dark urges of his protagonists were not what he cared most about.

“We never talked about it.”

“When it came to the topic of cannibalism, we took it for granted. Many pathologists gave us answers about how you could bite the body of someone who had just died, for example. We learned practical things. It takes a lot of effort to bite the skin. One of them was Wondering if we’ll need [more defined] Jaw muscles, but Americans are like that anyway. It’s from chewing gum.”

Guadagnino continued to praise his cast, including “amazing” Mark Rylance.

“When actors give themselves up and don’t guard themselves, it’s a beautiful experience. It’s a blessing to save the annoyance of filming, which is not normal to do. I was on a jury with Quentin Tarantino and he told me that casting is an actual act of composition.”

He does not believe in the search for chemistry between performers, but called it “American stupidity.”

“It’s so absurd. The only chemistry a director has to have in mind is towards the actors.”

Guadagnino has been teasing his upcoming tennis movie “The Challengers” and “An Even Bigger Splash,” now running for over three hours, and wondering if his characters have always been driven by passion rather than reason.

I love ‘Election of Alexander Payne’. [Tracy Flick] She is stubborn and knows what she wants, which is great, but I don’t know if I could make a movie like that or be with a character like that,” he said.

He also noted that while the shooting proves taxing, he enjoys editing and collaborating with Walter Fasano and “Wonder Kind” Marco Costa.

“It’s so small and funny, and you can call someone up and say, ‘I need you right now, it’s 2 am. And it comes. Dedication – I love it. For the movie, it’s not mine.”



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