Kuychett is fifty years old this year, she is trendy in Aries and has a weird expression. Her own style is very different from her tear gas movies. She is curious and humorous. She wears butterfly glasses in the shape of Shen Dianxia, and she is full of joy. She chose the place to meet, Taofen Western Book Office, although the waiter venomously taught us not to take pictures, everyone did not feel bad about it because she was really fun.
Kuychette was born in Santa Adria de Bezos, a small city on the outskirts of Barcelona, in northern Spain. People speak Catalan, and bullfighting is forbidden. People don’t dance flamenco, but Form a circle to dance Sadana hand in hand. The people nurtured by the dry and hot southern soil are passionate and strong, like bison entering a bullring, living for honor and dying for honor; while the northerners nestling in the Mediterranean have a gentle personality, and thousands of years of coastal trade have made They are open-minded and pragmatic, and they are more open-minded. Kuychette has traveled around the world since she was seventeen. She has worked and lived in London, New York, Paris, Tokyo and other cities. She said that she can integrate into another culture without difficulty. Catalonia gave British writers The culture shock brought by George Orwell (see "A Tribute to Catalonia") can be said to have never happened to her. She has only been in Shanghai for two weeks, and she already feels comfortable at home; on the contrary, she feels a bit like a foreigner when she returns to China. "I know globalization is a bad word. I don’t like seeing Starbucks in Barcelona or Shanghai. It’s good if Starbucks stay in the United States. If it’s the same everywhere in the world, it’s silly. If I’m in Shanghai, I would drink tea and eat. Shanghai cuisine. On the other hand, if there is a certain emotion in a Chinese director’s movie that touches me, it will give me a kind of shared happiness, which shows that there are common parts in human emotions, which makes me feel humanitarian More confident."
Kuychett spent all his life preparing to be a film director, but he never entered film school. When she was fourteen years old, she received a camera as a birthday gift and determined to become a director in the future. She said that when she was a child, her relatives and friends' weddings and parties would ask her to be a photographer. To enter the University of Barcelona, she chose history. "Now I often go to Oxford University and Sorbonne University to give master classes to film students. I will tell them that shooting techniques, editing techniques, how to frame the scene, and how to use the lens are of course very important, but these are just tools, the soul of film. It lies in your vision, the way you see the world. The director needs to have a world perspective, to understand how the world works, and history is part of it. History can teach you how to understand the past, understand the present, and thus understand the future." Taking Spanish modern and contemporary history as an example, the Franco dictatorship era is an inevitable topic. After Kuychette discovered Spain and civilians, many cities began to move Franco statues. “Although I think those statues are ugly, they are part of our country’s history. They can remind us of what happened in the past. Only when we have a correct and clear attitude towards the past can we guarantee that tragedy will not repeat itself. Any deliberate avoidance or even cover-up* of history is stupid. I can guarantee that the ghosts of the past will come back and retaliate. ."
"The Secret Life of Words" is a masterpiece that reminds everyone to remember history. Hannah, played by Sarah Polley, is a Bosnian girl who works in a factory in Northern Ireland. She works hard, but has bad ears, wears hearing aids all the time, and rarely communicates with others. She only eats a few pieces of fried chicken, one rice and half an apple at each meal. She calls her psychologist every once in a while, but never speaks. After the workers complained that she was not sociable, the factory owner gave her a long vacation. So she volunteered to come to an offshore oil rig to take care of a man Joseph (played by Tim Robbins) who was temporarily blind from severe burns. Joseph has a painful past that cannot bear to look back. As Hannah gradually spliced the causes and consequences of Joseph's story, she herself gradually opened up and told Joseph about her miserable experience in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina before the sick bed. The light and windy clouds in the first half of the film make people mistakenly believe that this is a love story of two lonely hearts with a disability. It was not until Hannah’s sick bed monologue that the director’s view was seen. Any war has scars, and with the end of the war, politicians sit and negotiate to divide the spoils. Most people heal their scars and forget the pain. However, how those who have been abused and damaged in the war will face the future life, and few people will go. Care. Kuychett once filmed a documentary in Sarajevo after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He interviewed many war victims. The fact that those women were repeatedly raped, abused and abused by foreign soldiers and even our soldiers during the war was shocking. Many People commit suicide because they are unbearable, and the surviving people cannot adapt to normal life again. They have experienced the extreme degradation of human nature. They have to regain their trust in others and the courage to continue living. How difficult it is that words cannot express . After Kuychett returned from Sarajevo, he immediately wrote the script. The role of the Bosnian girl Hannah was tailor-made for Sarah Polly. Hannah in the movie doesn't like to talk. When she spoke, she was shocked enough to state the facts.
Sarah Polly, who plays Hannah, is Kuychett’s most admired actress. She is Canadian and has no style of Hollywood actress. She won't take out a mirror to see if there are flowers in her makeup for a while, and she will be nervous about nail polish. Is there any flaking. Kuychett said: "I don’t get along well with big stars. I like to have a drink and chat with the actors after filming. Those Hollywood female stars act in movies, whether they open the door or throw them into the trash can. Things and every move are so fake, unlike a real person. Sarah is different. She is smart and special. She never cares about whether she looks good or not. She only cares about what the character should be. I want an ordinary person, and she is just one Ordinary person. Although she has never gone to college, she has read a lot of books, is very educated, and is very active in politics. She is really an amazing person. If possible, I will write a role for her in the future, only she can play "
Sarah Polly also starred in "Life Without Me", as a cleaner girl in her early twenties, who had an early marriage and had a child, and lived with her boyfriend in a trailer, only to find that she had a terminal illness one day, and she was running out of time. This is Kuychett's famous work, which explores the big proposition of how to face death. She said: "I am not obsessed with death, I am more obsessed with life, but it is indeed a challenge for me to think about death. If I knew that I was going to die soon, I would definitely be hysterical, and I would shout to everyone Calling, will be angry, will go crazy. How can we face death gracefully and with dignity, if there is such a thing, I want to explore this possibility in the movie. "Of course we are doing how dignified When faced with the grand dialogue of death and how to show the glory of humanity, the bottom line is still the movie. How does the young girl with two children who live at the bottom in the movie realize sporadic wishes before death, or leave regrets? .
The 2008 "Elegy" is the only film that was not written by Kuychette himself. The script is based on the novel "Dying Flesh" by Philip Roth. Obsessed with the tits of a glamorous Cuban schoolgirl. Why would you be interested in such a novel with a male perspective? Kuychett said it was an excellent exercise and experience, like an adventure. "I know men, know how their brains turn, and I know how women's brains turn better, so I think I can control this subject. And in the end it worked very well, I am very happy that I made the right choice." It is worth mentioning. However, this is the first time Oscar actor Ben Kingsley has acted in an erotic drama. He is said to be very nervous; even Penelope Cruz, who debuted in the erotic drama "Ham, Ham", was also very shy when he was filming nude scenes. , Often it takes four hours to prepare in the dressing room. The main bed scenes in "Elegy" were all directed by Kuychett himself. There was no lighting and no recording. There were only the director and two naked actors in the room. "At this time, they must believe me." The original author Philippe ·Ross is a regular guest of the "Worst Description of Literary Works". Kuischette also invited Rose to a meal for a blast in the novel. The plot is about a female student giving oral sex to an old professor, and the old professor fiercely. Pulling the girl's hair, the girl bit the old professor's penis. Kuychett said to Ross: "I know you are a great novelist, but please understand that I can't make Penelope bite Kingsley's second
child in the movie." Kuychett There is already a draft for her next film. What she is going to tell is that when the Spanish civil *war* ended and Franco began to dictator*, one million Spaniards crossed the Pyrenees to seek refuge in France. As a result, Many people arrived in France but were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps and suffered inhuman treatment. Among them was a midwife who helped many women to have children during the war. Kuychette said: "This is an almost obscure section of Spanish modern history, and few people mention it; even if I go to France, they will say, no, no, no such thing has happened here. But I I know, this happened, and I want everyone to face it."
Interview with Kuychetter:
Q: Why is your company called Miss Mustard? Have you become interested in Japanese culture?
Answer: I have worked in Japan and I especially like to eat wasabi! Actually, the main reason is that I had a Japanese boyfriend... I also had an American boyfriend, and I want to talk about a Chinese boyfriend... My boyfriends can form the United Nations together!
Question: You thanked John Berg at the end of "The Secret Life of Words", saying that he changed the way you see the world. Why?
Answer: Berg not only wrote literary criticism, but also wrote poems and novels. He has a novel called "The Wedding", which I like very much. The book that the heroine reads to the heroine in "Life Without Me" is "The Wedding". I used to advertise. John Berg wrote a book "The Way of Watching" in the 1970s. It talked about how to analyze images from another perspective, including paintings, commercials, and so on. For example, he said that the real purpose of advertising is to make people feel unconfident, and it is by no means like "you deserve to have" as advocated in L'Oreal advertising. Advertising is actually to make you feel worthless, make you feel inferior, and inferior to others. At this time, you will have a psychological need to buy those things they promote to enrich yourself and make yourself more beautiful. To me, who was still an advertising practitioner at the time, these words were really just a word to wake up the dreamer! Of course I have already bid farewell to the advertising industry.
Q: Are you a feminist?
Answer: Yes! But I don’t think that men and women are the same. Men and women are inherently different. There is no way. But I believe that the two sexes can communicate and understand each other. I don’t ask women to enjoy more rights than men. The equality is enough. There are still many places in South America that slaughter women for religious reasons, just because they are women. I think this is terrible. I don’t believe in religion. My father is a Communist Party. Our family doesn’t believe in it. All religions are basically anti-female.
Q: Do you think women all over the world are the same?
Answer: I think the difference is superficial and superficial. Of course, we have different skin colors and races, but from the bottom of our hearts, women on earth are similar. For example, I always fantasize that the next man I run into is Mr. Right. Although I know in my heart that there is no such thing as a perfect man, I still can’t help but think about it! Women are like this, right?
Q: What kind of person do you think is the sexiest?
Answer: Sex is a mysterious thing and requires fantasy. There is a word morbo in Spanish, which means that a man is a little dark, very mysterious, and has a hidden side in his heart, which is very sexy and energetic. My favorite erotic scene is in "The Age of Innocence," in which Daniel Day-Lewis opened Michelle Pfeiffer's cuff on a carriage. The desire to want but not to be the most sultry. Anyway, AV is not sexy at all to me, because there is no room at all, I will fall asleep after watching it.
Q: Who is your favorite Chinese director?
Answer: Wong Kar Wai! I had dinner with him, and he said he liked my movies very much. When I watched "Chongqing Forest", I could feel communicating with him. Although we come from different cultures, we have many feelings in common. I also like Lu Chuan, his "Nanjing! Nanjing! "Very powerful and shocking. I watched Wang Quan’an’s "Reunion" at the Berlin Film Festival recently. Although the actor speaks Shanghai dialect and the following is subtitled in German, the performance is very good. I can understand the emotions in the film and it is very real.
Q: Do you know the Spanish director Julio Mitan who filmed "Arctic Circle Lovers" and "Lucia's Lover"? He is very popular among Chinese literary and artistic youth.
Answer: I quite like Mi Tan's movies. The circle of Spanish directors is very small, and everyone looks up and sees you down. Mi Tan's movies are quite interesting, but I find it more difficult to go abroad because many things in his movies are not understandable by all foreigners.
Question: Do you often publish essays, are you interested in literature?
Answer: I admire literature so much, so I will never do it because I am afraid of bad writing. I like to read novels. Flaubert’s "Madame Bovary" has a great influence on me. I read this novel when I was a girl and decided not to get married. It was too terrible to get married. Just for that piece of paper, I took all the Longing and happiness are ruined. I just finished watching McEwan’s "On Chesel Beach" recently, alas, no honeymoon is worse than this, right? The last ten pages are really well written.
Question: How did you think of being a robot baby for the Expo Spain Pavilion?
Answer: There are three films in the Spanish Pavilion. The first one is directed by Picasso Luna, which is very Spanish, with flamenco dancing and talks about the origin of Spanish culture. The second one is Baslio Martin. Patino talked about the democratic process in modern Spain and the changes in Spanish life. I think since it’s the World Expo, people who come to visit must walk around and take pictures everywhere. It shouldn’t be too heavy, but it’s fun. Both Chinese and Spanish like children. I want to make a big robot baby. Well, he will laugh and move, say "Hola" and "Hello", and then let him dream, thinking about the future life, such as free education and medical care, men and women are truly equal, eating safe and healthy food, Use solar energy and so on. These are all achievable futures for mankind, not fantasies. So I think people can see some social visions while playing and taking pictures. If only one thing is selected for the Expo, it must be this Xiaomi baby!
About Isabel Kuychette:
On April 9, 1960, Isabel Kuychette was born in Santa Adria del Bezos, Barcelona, Spain, and then studied history at the University of Barcelona, majoring in 18th and 19th century history.
Before setting foot in the film industry, Isabel Kuychett worked for an advertising company and served clients including British Telecom, Danone, BMW, IKEA and Pepsi. However, her enthusiasm for the film industry actually began as a child. Her grandmother was a conductor at the movie theater. When Isabel was a child, she received an 8mm camera as a gift.
In 1984, Kuychett completed her first short film-"Look and You Will See" (Look and You Will See). Four years later, she teamed up with Fernando Gulin and Cami Elias to launch her first feature film-"Too Old to Die Young" (Too Old to Die Young). In 1996, Kuychett took Lily Taylor and Andrew McCarthy to the United States to film her first English film "Things I Never Told You" (Things I Never Told You).
In 1998, Kuychett created the movie "Those Who Love" starred by Monica Bellucci, and established his own film company, Miss Mustard Co., Ltd. the following year. In 2003, she directed another English film "Life Without Me" starring Sarah Polly, and she gained fame in the international film industry. The film won the Best Picture Award at the 2002 Catalonia Film Festival and the 14th Oja Kritik Award.
Since then, Kuychette began cooperating with Spanish and internationally renowned actors at the same time, steadily advancing his film career. In the film "The Secret Life of Speech", Spanish actor Javier Camara performed on stage with Tim Robbins and Sara Polly from the United States and Canada. The film won the 2005 Spanish film Four awards (best film, best director, best work and best screenplay) of the Goya Awards of the Academy of Arts. In the same year, Kuychette and Gus Van Sant, Walter Sellers, and the Coen brothers and other 18 directors collaborated to complete the short film collection "Paris, I Love You". Subsequently, international superstars Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper and Spanish actor Penelope Cruz starred in "Elegy" directed by Kuychett. And her 2009 new work-"Tokyo Sound Map" tells us a dark love story performed by Catalan actor Sergi Lopez and Japanese actor Rinko Kikuchi.
In 2009, Isabel Kuychett was awarded the Golden Medal of Art and served as a judge at the 59th Berlin Film Festival.
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