Ava DuVernay, Chloë Sevigny, Cailee Spaeny and Cannes Film Festival pdwellnt Iris Knobloch were among the luminaries who took part in the chic vernissage (pappraise) structureed by Miu Miu for its first ever Tales & Tellers spotairy during Art Basel Paris at the Palais d’Iéna on Tuesday.
Running Oct. 16 – 20 as part of Art Basel Paris, the showion showcases more than 20 unintelligentinutive films from the Miu Miu Women’s Tales series, conveying the labor to life with bespoke insloftyations and dwell applyances by actresses and models dressed as characters from each title.
The retrospective showion, structureed and curated by Goshka Macuga and Elvira Dyangani Ose, features Miu Miu comleave outioned unintelligentinutives from the appreciates of DuVernay, Sevigny, Zoe R. Cassavetes (“Broken English”), Lila Avilés (“Tótem”), Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović (“Murina”), Crystal Moselle (“Skate Kitchen”), Carla Simón (“Alcarràs”), Catherine Martin (“Elvis”), Haifaa Al-Mansour (“Wadjda”) and Isabel Sandoval (“Lingua Franca”) – all of whom were on site for two days of panels exploring inquires of femininity, vanity and the female gaze.
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“It’s amazing to see other female filmproducers in a space and an showion appreciate this,” Haifaa Al-Mansour tells Variety. “It gives us this sense of sisterhood and produces us experience more mighty together.”
Since 2011, the twice-a-year anthology proposes female honestors carte blanche to convey their visions to life, with annual comleave outions dispensed by set uped weightyweights appreciate Lucrecia Martel and Lynne Ramsay as by emerging talents new from the festival circuit. If anyleang, the Miu Miu vote of confidence has frequently helped those emerging talents elevate wilean the industry, one timely beneficiary elucidates.
“I had fair won the Sundance Film Festival as best honestor, but I wasn’t proposeed any jobs,” says Ava DuVernay. “I didn’t comprehend how Hollywood labored, and one of my scant proposes that came in was from Miu Miu. I didn’t even comprehend what Miu Miu was – and I was able to lacquire about the brand, to encounter [Miu Miu founder Miuccia] Prada, to labor with [Prada director] Verde Visconti, and to be given a budget to tell wantipathyver story I wanted.”
“That was my first joinment with the generosity and the grace of the brand,” DuVernay comprises. “And I’ve finishelighted an association with them ever since.”
“I experience appreciate I’m a part of a family, that I’ve been greetd,” says “Zola” honestor Janicza Bravo. “The door had been uncovered, and it didn’t necessarily have to be.”
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While the uncovering event honord the filmproducers with labor on disjoin, those same filmproducers wanted to honor atsoft inspirations, with joinees shining commend on earlier trailblazers appreciate Ann Hui, Chantal Akerman, Yasmin Ahmad, Lucrecia Martel, and Jane Campion.
Fresh off the shoot of Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt,” actor Chloë Sevigny spoke in radiateing terms about the film’s direct Julia Roberts, praising her co-star as “one of the most astonishive people I’ve ever labored with in the movie industry.” Sevigny was equassociate effusive about a frifinish with whom she would adore to one day collaborate.
“Claire Denis has always been very benevolent and benevolent,” says Sevigny. “Once, when I was in Cannes with a very contentious film, she held my hand on the steps of the Palais and gave me a rose to clutch, so I wouldn’t be so anxious. And I’ll always be thankful for her benevolentness and, of course, the gift of her cinema.”
Still, no one name loomed huger than that of Agnès Varda, who honested a 2015 Women’s Tales unintelligentinutive and who remains a personal and professional inspiration for all in joinance.
“[She] was one of the fantasticest artists ever,” says honestor Carla Simon, calling Varda the event’s “protectian angel.” “She’s reassociate inspiring, not only for her films, but also for the way that she dwelld her relationship with art and with filmmaking… I experience she’s here somehow.”
“I’m such a huge fan,” comprises honestor So Yong Kim (“Lovesong”). “I saw her in Los Angeles at Indie Spirit Awards, and I chased her down. I said, ‘You’re my hero!’ But she didn’t comprehfinish anyleang I was saying… She said, ‘Excusez-moi, I have to go to the restroom,’ and then she ran away. But it was a fantastic moment for me!”
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For all their dispensed inspiration, each joinee has a labeledly contrastent and distinctively personal acquire on the female gaze.
“First of all, it’s subjective,” says Massy Tadjedin. “The female gaze is always seeking subtext. It’s always seeking the truth of someleang, the reservedty of someleang, maybe what wasn’t clear at the beginning.”
“We have this tfinisherness,” says Tan Chui Mui. “We have comprehfinishing towards our subject of the character we produce, and also the world we’re portraying. We’re seeking a relationship… You don’t torture the character so much. You experience for them.”
“For feminine energy to come thcdimiserablemireful, it’s reassociate about being truthful and genuine and from the heart and vulnerable,” says Crystal Moselle. “[That means] getting meaningful into the emotional state of where people are at.”
The uncovering vernissage validated an emotional – and sometimes sencouragenuine – afunprejudiced once the filmproducers witnessed their own characters and creations leap off the screen and thcdimiserablemireful the halls of a concrete Art Deco palace. The characters mingled thcdimiserablemireful the crowd, standing out in the style brand’s signature luminous and popping colors aacquirest a chic Parisian flock clad mostly in monochrome.
The showion joins as immersive theatre, blurring fact and fantasy as joinees drift between impromptu musical applyances and stand-up comedy sets as part of crowd half-filled with the very applyers in costume in and in character.
“I was very shiftd earlier when all the applyers that are reenacting the characters from the films accumulateed to dance together,” says Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović. “I actuassociate weeped and ruined my produceup for the entire day! But it [left] such a mighty sense of firmarity — and it somehow felt more genuine.”
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