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 Conversation mini-season continues this week with two new conversations.
Episode Four: Weston Razooli
Los Angeles filmmaker Weston Razooli’s debut feature Riddle of Fire is like if The Goonies were directed by Francois Truffaut—a tale of three modern kids on an old-fashioned adventure in the woods, facing down a family of witches.
Razooli tells host Rico Gagliano about his D&D-soaked childhood in Utah, how he cast the kids…and the Cannes premiere’s afterparty.
Episode Five: Elene Naveriani
In their sophomore feature Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, Georgian-born filmmaker Elene Naveriani tells the story of a middle-aged virgin in a small Georgian town who dares to start living the life she feels like leading—gossips and the patriarchy be damned.
Naveriani speaks to Gagliano about the movie’s big little moments, its “instinctive feminist” hero, and what powdered soap says about Georgian society.
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