La 67esima edizione del Festival di Cannes si svolgerà dal 14 al 25 maggio 2014. Magnifico il poster ufficiale di quest'anno dedicato a Marcello Mastroianni in un fotogramma tratto da 8½. Per quanto riguarda il cinema indiano, ad oggi l'unico titolo in concorso è Titli, di Kanu Behl, nella sezione Un certain regard. Titli è prodotto da Dibakar Banerjee per conto di Yash Raj Films. La pellicola che inaugurerà la manifestazione, Grace di Monaco, è coprodotta da Yash Raj Films.
Aggiornamento del 17 gennaio 2022: intervista concessa da Kanu Behl, pubblicata nel sito del Festival. Di seguito un estratto:
'Tell us how your film came about.
Titli is a very personal film. I'd written a screenplay before, but hadn't found anyone willing to produce it. I realised that it lacked honesty. I wanted to make a film that people wanted to see. This was what made me decide that, whatever I wrote in the future, it would be directly inspired by my own experience. Bit by bit, Titli turned into a condensed portrayal of my life up until the age of thirty, and my complicated relationship with my father. I had made a bet with myself to be done with it, once and for all. Then it struck me that, unconsciously, I was becoming more and more like him. Physically, I had managed to make the break, but the tyrant I was running from was deeply rooted inside me. This is what became the heart of the film. Titli is about family ghosts that linger, about the way representations of the past are handed down from one person to the next, without anyone being aware of what's happening.
Any special memory or anecdote from the shooting?
After working together for a short time, Shashank (who plays Titli) and I had the impression that we weren't getting to grips with the character. Shashank had never been beaten up and came from a quiet, middle-class area of Delhi. For a few days, we'd worked in some extreme conditions, to get him on the right track. He'd been hit, and he'd had a glimpse of the oppression one can experience living in such a situation. He'd had no idea what it was like to live in such close proximity with so many people. We asked him to go and spend some time in a slum in Mumbai, where he'd have to go and shit outside in full view of everyone. He was there for a week, and when he came back he was completely devastated. He didn't really know what to say, except that he was angry and wanted to hit someone for putting him through it. This was the sense of violence that I wanted to bring to the film. It was a crucial exercise for him, as for me, to find out who it was Titli had to be in the film'.
Vedi anche:
- Le prime del 30 ottobre 2015: Titli, 8 novembre 2015
- Aishwarya Rai al Festival di Cannes 2014, 20 agosto 2016
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| Da destra: Guneet Monga, Shashank Arora, Kanu Behl, Ranvir Shorey, Lalit Behl - Cannes, 2014 |
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| Kanu Behl - Cannes, 2014 |
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| Sonam Kapoor - Cannes, 2014 |
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| Il cast di Titli - Cannes, 2014 |
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| Shashank Arora e Kanu Behl - Cannes, 2014 |
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| Sonam Kapoor - Cannes, 2014 |
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| Da destra: Kanu Behl, Shashank Arora, Ranvir Shorey e Lalit Behl - Cannes, 2014 |
