On the day when Oscar nominated, "material" director Coralie Fargeat
Her laptop is watching this year's competitors in a small bedroom in the 20th Ardissement in Paris in Paris. Today is in the afternoon of France. When her name is called the best director nominee (she is the only woman), and a highly joyful Fargeat jumps in the air
Before her red retro sofa. A few minutes later, she looked at "material"
Become the first horror movie nominated by the best film. It received five nominations
All independent movies are surprising feats
Oscar voters.

Fargeat, 48, said: "When I shoot a movie, I will become the Cannes Film Festival and at the Oscar awards ceremony." "I believe this is what I want to do. I believe it is impossible."

But a year ago, Fargeat did not consider drafting an Oscar speech. Actually, she is worried
The audience may never see the "material".
Star Demi Moore is a washed actress into a fitness expert. Global Corporation, funded $ 15
Millions of movies and planned to release it, decided not to release this movie in the theater
Fargeat showed them a 140 -minute version. At that time, things were really complicated.

Fargeat is a rising star. Her movie "Revenge" was well received by critics and genre fans in 2017. -It six months in France-is about to end. She doesn't want
Change the scene.

On the day of the Oscar nomination announcement, I met Fargeat in her apartment. exist
In the past few months, she has made several months of reports for "material". The substance was eventually issued by the independent distributor Mubi. The global box office was $ 79.1 million. At most, it was a reporter from Le Point. In this story, Fargeat said that she refused to reveal three general executives (two men and one woman) who refused to reveal the name. She said in a man in the screening room: "I think this movie must be thinking about things in this gentleman."

Today, Fargeat did not point to Universal. She did not feel sad for studios who couldn't accept her passion project. She said, "I can't be too much." "I think this is not a good match with what they want to do. I think they think the gap is too big for them, how do they sell movies."

Insiders say that the vision of Fargeat is generally respectful, which is proven by its strong financial support for "material". The studio even transferred its marketing materials for film creation to the final new owner MUBI. However, Fargeat's insistence on completely creative control has led to the situation of "walking with God", even if this means generally suffered small losses.

Fargeat has just become the ninth woman who has become the Oscar awards ceremony (who takes her to class with Jane Campion, Kathryn Bigelow and Chloézhao). It is easy to attribute to him, but this is not the style of Fargeat. She said: "This is very difficult." "Deep, disappointing. It is painful. This is very painful. This is very difficult."

Last spring, a general executive put forward such an idea that "material" could be sent to the small reputation distributor of the studio, key functions. That company usually helps to talk to the UNIVERSAL at the Academy Awards ceremony, but its slate is too full to accommodate Fargeat's movies.

Fargeat said: "I also know that there are already existence and it may be worse." "Nevertheless, I still do not always believe that the kind people of this movie are surrounded by the kind people, but there is no maliciousness."

Even now, what happened to the "material" of "general mobile phones" is a studio known for its accurate touch with strong AUTEURS. (After all, these same executives helped Christopher Nolan's "OPPENHEIMER" winning seven Academy Awards last March.) Some insiders said that Universal screened the film and knew that This is not suitable for them. Other parties say that Fargeat will not spend an inch in the recording studio-even dialogue Notes-this leads to a deadlock. The title of general and work refuses to do this.

For her, Fargeat said that "this material" was proved to be "such an idol plastic" so that she felt that she had passed the monster from the last scene of the movie to the global. She said: "The reason why you do this work is because you want to be loved, but after a while, the movie you really want to make is completely inconsistent with the expectations of a studio logic."

Shortly after the Los Angeles and Universal were screened, Fargeat held Matthers in its own hands by cutting the "material" into the Cannes Film Festival. She knew that if "material" entered the Cannes Film Festival and let her go directly to the big masses, she could sell it to another distributor. However, at 11 pm on April 10, the press conference announced that the official choice was only 12 hours, and the director had no hope. "I said to myself, 'I am dead.' I was sending a text message to a close friend," Listening, I still heard nothing. Now I think it's over, "she recalled." Just as I was in this article, ThierryFrémaux called me to tell me that the movie had participated in the official competition. "

She said: "When I entered Cannes, I screamed loudly, so that I must have awakened the whole floor. I know that everything will change, because I want to give birth to this movie in the Movie Temple. In this place , I can't dream Dream for "". "

Since participating in the 2001 premiere of David Lynch, Mulholland Drive, Mulholland Drive, " The cover is located next to her, on the shelf next to her, and sitting on her frame with the living room in the living room in John Carpenter. transparent

The bold behavior of the famous director of the festival Frémaux is the "material" for the game rather than the midnight, not the midnight screening. "From the beginning, I thought this movie would be very high because I like it. I like its nerves," he said, describing it as "great strange" and "very primitive and uneasy."

Shortly after the "material" was accepted in Cannes, Mubi, led by EFE CAKAREL, purchased it for multiple territories. Cakarel is very deeply convinced that Fargeat's movie is very profound, so that he was released at the inauguration ceremony in the United States (A24 considers the project, but sources said that New York State and its tenacious founder Tom Quinen (Tom Quinn), go online with the wire.

Although Fargeat's turmoil with Universal, the movie star Moore still supports the project and advocates the director's uncompromising vision. The actress said only a few hours after being nominated by Oscar "this essence", "I never think this movie will disappear." Like Fargeat, Moore was ready to bet on the movie. She said: "This film violates many norms." "As I said before, this may be an absolute disaster."

Fargeat praised Moore's performance. This was one of the largest stars in Hollywood in the 1990s, which was pre -abandoned by Hollywood. "Demi responded to this script because she was in a journey in life and could become a prison that could be" image "from prison." "If you don't want to have all the value in the eyes of others, This is what you must get rid of.

The same is true of the story of "material", so that she was willing to make a huge sacrifice for this. When she wrote a script in specifications, she was broken, and she maintained creative control from beginning to end. She rejected the quotation of the favorable recharma (even a brief preliminary talk with Marvel, and Marvel approached her directly to get the "Black Widow" in 2021), so she could focus on the project.

"In the stage of film production and difficulties, I kept a close attitude. At that time, everyone hoped that I would make it less violent, less, less, blood, less and less. The number of movies exceeds-or at least condemn the level of the movie in the movie.

In fact, Fargeat put herself in one of the most disturbing moments-in the role of Moore, she first used her thoughts that would make her younger and more available. She said: "When you see the needle into Elisabeth's arm to inject the material, this is my arm."

That moment was one of the many times in "material". For Fargeat, this is the focus.

She said: "This kind of violence is not delicate." "This is not small. This is not friendly. It is not smiling. This is powerful. I know, to be loyal to the story I want to tell, this movie must show it , Make Peo-PLE feel it, the most important thing is that it is not a censorship at the level of intensity. "

Despite the problem of Universal Studios, Fargeat said she did not regret insisting on guns. She thanked the champion co -chairman Eric Fellner for advocating the movie.

"This is a very difficult item. It took us more than a year. We encountered Kuvid, and investors were very reluctant." She said. "We have seen a lot of different parts, but this is an adventure project. It is not the horror of" screaming ". This is indeed a genre movie, but it has multiple layers and very strong information. With the point of view of the director.

Matt Donnelly contributed to this story.

Copyright: Sebastien Cauchon