With Andrea Reuter prior to receiving the Stockholm Visionary Award (again).

0:46 Original idea of POALOF
2:55 Secretive writing
3:33 Why 18th century
5:03 Prof. Sciamma's lecture on gaze
8:30 Cave persons
8:55 Start in directing
11:16 Why synchronized swimming
11:38 "Cotton Eye Joe"
14:41 Challenges working with children in Water Lilies
15:36 Explorations in Tomboy
16:57 Desires within the production process
18:17 Mythologies and identities in Girlhood
20:38 Writer-director vs screenwriter
21:15 Adèle says "zucchini"
23:13 Letting scripts go
23:43 Maybe won't write for others anymore
24:33 Absence of certain people in films
27:04 Loneliness in cinema/literature (except maybe Virginia Woolf)
27:50 Rihanna's Diamonds link to POALOF/bonfire song
28:12 "Cotton Eye Joe"
30:15 Musicals were first films (fred astaire's)
31:03 Vivaldi's democratic hit (unlike Schubert's/Brandenburg)
32:27 Un/happy endings
35:01 Dynamic of shot/reverse-shot evolves to be between Adèle Haenel/viewer
35:56 Mary Oliver: "I tell you this to break your heart, by which I
mean only, that it break open and never close again to the rest of the
world."

Stockholm, Sweden
Nov 9th, 2019