CATHERINE BREILLAT: ONE SHOULD BE SINCERE, OPEN, BOLD, AND
INTERESTING IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
17-07-2008 18:50:00 | Armenia | Culture
YEREVAN, JULY 17, NOYAN TAPAN. To be engaged in
cinematographic work it is not compulsory to go to a
cinematographic school, but it is compulsory to go to montage
work, as it is when confronting pictures that one is able to
feel and see correctness and beauty of feelings and pictures.
Catherine Breillat, famous French screenwriter, actress and film
maker, Golden Apricot's honorary guest, advised Armenian artists
and students engaged in cinematographic work.
When shooting a film C. Breillat is not guided by
cinematographic rules: "I shoot as a like, choose my colors and
forms. I like it when perpendicular, horizontal, and crooked
lines intersect, and light and dark, feeling and outburst join
them," she said.
Catherine Breillat does not agree with those naming her a
film maker, a film maker shoots a film according to a screen
written in advance, while she does what subconsciously results
on the shooting ground. According to her, having a screen has
only one positive side: you are able to get money.
Catherine Breillat took interest in cinema as early as at
the age of 12 and at the age of 17 she wrote her first novel,
L'homme Facile. Then she played in Bernardo Bertoluci's film
Last Tango in Paris. In 1975 she screened one of her novels as a
film maker. And in 1999 the film Romance already brought success
to Breillat as a film maker.
Catherine Breillat told that as she was a woman she was not
permitted to go to the French National Cinematographic School.
She was constantly criticized for bold and open films considered
to be pornographic. "Making love is not pornography.
Pornography has an aim, while my films raise some problems,"
the director said. She shoots films of sexual nature as they are
prohibited. "I will not stand if someone tells me that it is
prohibited. I do not understand why when a director shoots a
couple drinking coffee in a cafe he is a director, but when he
shoots an open love scene, he stops to be a director..." "My
films are rather intended for seeing them alone, as they are
very intimate and when seeing them one need to hide his
feelings," the director said. According to Breillat, many people
after seeing her films either hate or adore her.
Nevertheless, Catherine Breillat again advised those
present to be extremely sincere, open, bold and interesting in
cinematography.