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Interview with director Bertrand Bonello on "Doll Is Mine"Ciné-courts: Was the role written for Asia Argento? Did she agree to act in a short film without any problem? In fact, Asia and I have known each other for 5 years, we are very good friends. I sent her the script as a letter to a friend. If she hadn't accepted, I don't think I would have done this film. How did you shoot the sequences when Asia Argento talks to her other character? Was there a double? No, there was no double. In fact, we shot in two days, one day the brunette and one day the blonde. Asia didn't talk to anyone, I didn't want an answer. I was inspired by Cindy Sherman's work. I wanted her to address herself to someone and talk to herself at the same time. The fact that there was no answer makes you stuck between words, you say sentences in the emptiness. So it creates an ambiguity and a monologue at the same time. These are things we say to ourselves and that we project at the same time. Watching your film, we have the impression that Asia Argento is more like a Barbie than a model? In fact, Sherman worked a lot on these kinds of films so the American fifties glamour was very influenced by the doll, Barbie, and then she worked a lot at the end of the eighties on models, wax dolls. So I mixed the two of them a little, and then there is this song "Doll is Mine" that makes the link. Your movie is magnificent, it's rare to see short films that are so beautiful. It's normal, I have more experience. That's why I think it's very beautiful to make short films after having done full length films, we acquire a certain savoir faire. The short films I made before aren't very good. I think it's interesting to see short films made by famous people, because there is no commercial side. How did you shoot the film? In fact, we started from the path that makes the blonde. There, we needed the door, there, something else... We started from the idea that the space was divided in two. There was also a space put on stage by the photographer so we had a place that was a little more bright and the other space was quite naturalized. For Asia, was it a challenge to play two characters? No, I think that the most important thing, for her and for me, was that we made something together despite the fact that we know each other very well and that's always a bit intimidating. She didn't want to deceive me and I didn't want to deceive her. In fact, it's harder to work among friends than with people that we don't know. What I love about this film, it's that after a while it becomes a surrealist documentary. Why didn't it enter the competition at Cannes? Didn't you want it to, or didn't people ask you? I was aked to put it in competition. I was told it was the best short film. As I was already going to Cannes in competition with a full length film, I was told that I didn't need it. For him, it was better to put it outside the competition. I think he was right. It was good to leave the competition to people who never have short films because it's important to them. And now, do you have any films in the works? I have two short films in the works, one in English and the other one in French. They are due for next spring. And I'm about to finish another film that I'm writing with Asia. |
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