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Talk: Pedro Almodóvar & Sofia Coppola
Join NYFF64 filmmakers Pedro Almodóvar (Bitter Christmas) and Sofia Coppola (Making Marie Antoinette) for a conversation exploring their kindred thematic preoccupations around gender, memory, intimate relationships, and the slippery interplay of fact and fiction.
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Two films in the NYFF64 lineup examine the process of artistic creation up close, if from different vantage points. With Main Slate selection Bitter Christmas, his 24th feature film, Pedro Almodóvar reflects on the methods and relationships that have underpinned his filmography with ruthless candor and sparkling humor; the metacinematic movie involves two nested stories, each featuring a filmmaker who mines personal lives for art to dazzling and prickly ends. Meanwhile, Spotlight selection Making Marie Antoinette, shot by Eleanor Coppola and finished after her death by her daughter, Sofia Coppola, looks back at the making of the 2006 film that cemented the latter’s status as a bona fide auteur. Join Almodóvar and Coppola—both singular creators who have successfully elevated style to the level of substance—for a conversation exploring their kindred thematic preoccupations around gender, memory, intimate relationships, and the slippery interplay of fact and fiction.
Two films in the NYFF64 lineup examine the process of artistic creation up close, if from different vantage points. With Main Slate selection Bitter Christmas, his 24th feature film, Pedro Almodóvar reflects on the methods and relationships that have underpinned his filmography with ruthless candor and sparkling humor; the metacinematic movie involves two nested stories, each featuring a filmmaker who mines personal lives for art to dazzling and prickly ends. Meanwhile, Spotlight selection Making Marie Antoinette, shot by Eleanor Coppola and finished after her death by her daughter, Sofia Coppola, looks back at the making of the 2006 film that cemented the latter’s status as a bona fide auteur. Join Almodóvar and Coppola—both singular creators who have successfully elevated style to the level of substance—for a conversation exploring their kindred thematic preoccupations around gender, memory, intimate relationships, and the slippery interplay of fact and fiction.