A few weeks back, MUBI Podcast host Rico Gagliano traveled to the Cannes Film Festival, camera crew in tow, to chat it up with a cross-section of filmmakers debuting their movies there. Our Cannes Conversations mini-season continues this week with two new episodes.
Episode Two: Kleber Mendonça Filho
In 2019, Brazil's Kleber Mendonça Filho won the Jury Prize at Cannes with Bacurau, which he co-directed with Juliano Dornelles. This year he returned to the fest to premiere a documentary about movies … or more specifically, about the places we watch them.
In this second conversation taped on location at Cannes '23, Filho tells host Rico Gagliano about Pictures of Ghosts. It's his look back at the movie palaces in his hometown of Recife, and how he's come to terms with the way that they—and lots of beloved city spaces—inevitably vanished.
Episode Three: Monia Chokri
Quebecois actor and director Monia Chokri is a Cannes regular. Her films regularly return to one of her favorite themes: very smart women having a very hard time figuring out relationships.
Host Rico Gagliano stole a few minutes with her at this year’s Cannes to try and figure out why they do—and to learn about her charmer of a dramedy The Nature of Love, one of the hits of the festival.
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