The opening poem
ODE TO MONEY
Money is like blood,
it gives life if it flows.
Money is like Christ,
it blesses you if you share it.
Money is like Buddha,
if you don't work,
you don't get it.
Money enlightens those who use it
to open the flower of the world,
and damns those who glorify it, confounding riches with the soul.
There is no difference between conscience and death. There is no difference between death and wealth.
Jodorows Kee talked about dance in an interview
To me, this film is like a mental atomic bomb. I have written books and invented a therapy called “psychomagic” that involves acts to heal family-related childhood psychological problems. THE DANCE OF REALITY is not just a film, but also a kind of family healing because three of my sons act in it. I am going back to the source of my childhood, to the same place where I grew up, in order to reinvent myself. It's a reconstruction that has reality as its starting point but which does not allow me to change the past.
Your visual universe is very baroque and crazy but the directing remains sober, frontal and almost theatrical, with fixed frames which perhaps stem from your experience in comic strips. I told my director of photography, Jean-Marie Dreujou, that I wanted a “clinico -photographic” image rather than an esthetic one. I wanted beauty to spring from the content, not the form.
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