The French film "Un été brûlant" was the first
film to be booed at the Venice Film Festival. The film, directed by Philippe
Garrel and starring Monica Bellucci, competes in the official section.
The
film, a French-style love story, was only liked by fans of the poetic cinema
of the author of "Les amants réguliers" or "La frontière de l'aube".
"My
film is born out of nonconformity, which is my way of approaching the
cinema," said the director today at a press conference, who has had the
participation of several members of his family for the making of this film:
his father wrote the dialogues and it comes out on the screen; his wife
helped him with the script and his son Louis is the lead.
Garrel made a whole defense of art and auteur cinema, not always well understood, helped by his son Louis, who stressed that his father's films have caused division of opinions since the first one he made, when he was just 18 years old. A defense that Bellucci joined.
"It has been a very beautiful job, something that rarely
happens. Because Philippe takes the time to be with people and to rehearse,
so that everything is much simpler when he arrives at the shoot," explained
the Italian, in trousers and a jacket. black and white t-shirt.
An
experience that he described as "unique" because it has allowed him to work
with a director whose work he admires and because he has been able to
witness "the love between a father and a son."
A response as
diplomatic as the one he had previously given to the reason for her
appearance in the film, an image that has been the most commented on of the
film after its screening in Venice.
And his n*de, made just two and a half months
after giving birth to his second daughter, the result of his marriage to the
French actor Vincent Cassel, is a "form of abandonment and generosity
towards a film and the manager of it."
