INTERVIEW – The director of “Trois amis” talks about his work as a filmmaker and subjects such as love, mourning, MeToo…
After Chronicle of a fleeting affairEmmanuel Mouret returns to choral form in Three friends , presented in competition at the Venice Film Festival. Beneath its air of light comedy, the comedy here flirts with melodrama. Meeting with a filmmaker at the top of his art.
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LE FIGARO. – Three friends is a film about love and loss. Is Victor the first death in your cinema ?
EMMANUEL MOURET. – Yes, it's my first. It was a very difficult decision to make. We have all lost someone close to us at some point in our lives. But I like this idea that if people disappear, the links remain. The dead still live within us. I found it fun and exciting to have Victor appear as a ghost. He turns out to be the narrator and he arrives in a completely different mood than when he was alive. It goes from a possessive love, from a feverish state to a detached, true love. Death allows him to complete his analysis
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