‘Drawings do not lie’: filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius, Animation About Holocaost | Michel Hazanavicius

WFamous French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius approached by Jean-Claude Gumbberg, the best friend, writer and playwright of his family to adapt the fairy tale. Most valuable shipping (2019) A animated film, O hesitated. Short book, Holocaust and a fairy tale about the extraordinary courtesy actions that people can do. Although he was moved by him, Hazanavicius was initially reluctant: he never made an animated film and thought he would never make a film about Holocaust. In the 1920s, the grandson of Eastern European immigrants from Lithuania and Poland to France felt the 58 -year -old Hazanavicius, the issue would say. “The story of my grandmother and my grandfather, and my family, not mine,” he says, 10. ARRONDİSEMENT is the sunlight flowing from his home in Paris and the window behind him. “I was born in Paris in the late 1960s and had a wonderful, very happy childhood.” But that period coincided When the Holocaust denial began and the survivors who remained silent until then began to talk about their experiences in the camps. “Priority for years [of those seeking to preserve the memory] He witnessed witnesses. And I thought the fiction on the subject was not appropriate. “

The wife of Hazanavicius was actor Bérénice Bejo – ArtistHazanavicius’ Academy Award -winning film is about Hollywood’s black and white silent period, which changed its mind. Bejo told him that he did not explain enough of his family to his family about Jewish history, 26, 23, 16 and 13, and convinced Hazanavicius to undertake the project not only for them but also for the children of other people. “[I realised] If I hadn’t told my children stories about my family – How did they come to France and what happened during the war – it was likely [Jewish parents] He didn’t do it passed [their heritage] any.”

Most valuable shipping A girl’s wife (Grégory Gadebois), who saved from a snow (Grégory Gadebois), sang from one of the many trains of Auschwitz (Dominique Blanc’s film (Dominique Blanc). The woman has lost her own child and is aware that the baby may be Jewish – a long (Jewish prayer shawl) – manages to convince her husband that they should take care of her despite the risks. While the conditions and fate of the baby’s family are known, the little girl transforms the lives of the couple and the people they pass.

Hazanavicius described the story as ultra fiction. “In my opinion, Gumbberg’s story always felt like there was, and I wanted the film to be compatible with it.” “Once upon a time…” (described by the late Jean-Louis Trintignant) and uses another fairy tale device that does not name the characters. “By doing this, he makes him universal, Haz says Hazanavicius. The film then gradually disrupts the form by putting historical reality into the story.

Most valuable shippingIt lasted for more than five years, published in Cannes last year when Palme D’Or nominated. Critic Leila Latif, writes IndiewireHe said that the film was “an ugly but elegant Holocaust tale .. The previous year in Cannes, Interest Grand Prix and Director Jonathan won the Fipresci Award for Glazer. Both films are indirectly approaching their subjects. Hazanavicius says, “It is impossible to show the lives, love and dreams of approximately 6 million people and the cruelty or evil of how they die,” he says. Glazer’s technique is to transmit savagery out of screen through special sound use; The difference of Hazanavicius. “I am trying to activate the imagination or knowledge of the audience through suggestion.”

For his films, it was clear that Gumbberg and Hazanavicius would be an animated feature, not live action. “I would never do it with live actors because of the subject, Haz says Hazanavicius. “We all know that Brad Pitt is not a spy, but we suspend our incredible. This can be very uncomfortable, even obscene when representing the genocide on the screen. If I take a chance with a deported man on a train to Auschwitz, we will all take it out of the frame, if [the actor] Is it hungry, there’s some chocolate, and if it’s thirsty, there’s some water. This is a problem for me. “The advantage of animation is nothing real. There is nothing frameless. Drawings are the connotation of something. Paradoxically, drawings that are far from reality can be more realistic.”

Hazanavicius, a graduate of an art school, explained, “As an artist, not an animator, but as an artist. “As I think the book was a classic story, the idea was to have a classic animation, not 3D or Japanese style.” His first vision was no different from early Disney films, but round, childish images did not seem suitable for the story. He returned to the French and Russian painting, and was also inspired by the use of heavy, black main lines and color blocks in his depiction of people and nature of the 19th century Japanese artist Hiroshige. Finally, Hazanavicius and the animator team combined the brave lines and color of the 19th century with the brave lines and color used by the artist Henri Rivière, one of the leading defenders of Japanese.

There is very few dialogues, and what was taken from Gumbberg’s book, including the Jews called “heartless”. At first, Gruff does not want to do anything with the antisemitic lumberjack, and even refuses to take it at home. Finally, when he touches him and feels his heart throws, he realizes that the heartless is a heart and began to discover his compassion.

Oscar -winning composer Alexandre Desplat created the original score. “Music is a very important voice: it really contributes to the spirit of the film,” he says Hazanavicius is also vital in telling the story of this voice. Instead of dialogue? “Oh, yes. Usually, as a director, I prefer to use silence for important things, or he replied. Artist. Nevertheless, sound is a mechanism to promote real life: footprints in the snow, Kuşsong, wind rustling in the trees or the baby’s laughter. But there is something pragmatic. “The woods are simple men and women. They do not speak much. And the deported man, the baby’s father, I did not want to speak. So there is nothing to say.”

Hazanavicius grew up in Paris. After the Art School, he worked as a director for ads and TV series and published his first feature in 1999. Mesim. Two spy paroded movies, OSS 117: Cairo, Spy Slot And OSS 117: Lost in Rio– He followed but was Artist This won five Academy Awards, including the best painting and the best director, and received global appreciation. He is currently adapting another book, Third handIt was arranged in the early 1920s and in the early 1920s.