In his Oscar-nominated Close, filmmaker Lukas Dhont uses the sparest dialogue, the gentlest music, and the most pastoral of images ... to tell a shattering story about the brutal ways society turns boys into men.
We're taking a mid-season break from our series on movie music to bring you this candid interview with Dhont—in which he tells host Rico Gagliano how he writes like a dancer, why this quiet film is intended as a loud political statement, and what it has in common with James Cameron's Titanic.
Listen to the special episode below or wherever you get your podcasts:
Close is streaming exclusively on MUBI starting April 21, 2023, in the UK, Ireland, India, Turkey, and Latin America.