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\n\tDon\u2019t call Albert Serra\u2019s new film, \u201cSeize moments de ma vie\u201d (\u201cSixteen Moments of My Life\u201d), a concert film. Premiering out of competition at the Locarno Film Festival, the film documents a one-off performance by screen legend Ingrid Caven at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. \u201cI will never shoot a concert unless I\u2019m involved in the music,\u201d Serra told Variety<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe band were Molforts, the Catalan musicians who provide Serra\u2019s soundtracks and Caven has been friends with the Spanish director for over fifteen years. Famed for her performances in the sixties and seventies of many European film classics as well as being the muse and frequent collaborator of her sometime husband, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Caven is also a recording artist and Serra requested that they collaborate together with the musicians writing the music sending it over on CDs and Caven improvising over the music.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOver the years the musicians and Caven wrote 16 songs, going back and forth. All this process, but they didn\u2019t communicate directly. This is the point. They only communicate through the music itself. They didn\u2019t talk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNot so much the director as the MC? \u201cI had all these things in front of me, I could hardly see the stage.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is how Serra also directs his films, such as \u201cLibert\u00e9\u201d and \u201cPacifiction.\u201d \u201cEverything is based on non-communication with the actors. I like when things happen without really working on meanings or on the outcome. Subconscious. Like old school Hollywood, you know, everybody has to do what they have to do, and we don\u2019t need to discuss for hours. This was a similar concept.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film continues Serra\u2019s interest in performance. His last film, the documentary \u201cAfternoons of Solitutde,\u201d took as its subject a young and celebrated bullfighter and focused intently on him to the exclusion of everything else. So in \u201cSixteen Moments,\u201d there are no cut-aways to the audience. \u201cYou have genius musicians on stage, and you want me to shoot some idiots watching them? No,\u201d says Serra.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe music is a mixture of autobiography sung in a way that drifts between opera, cabaret and Edith Piaff. At the very beginning we see Caven coughing before taking the stage. \u201cEvery performance is kind of life and death, and it\u2019s unique: it\u2019s fatality. Cinema is perfect for that, because cinema has the same logic. One moment of the film has passed, you cannot grab it, it\u2019s passed. The experience of cinema, it\u2019s the logic of live music or live performance. It has passed, and you cannot recover it. It\u2019s very coherent with this fragility of creating musical life. You know that not everything is perfect. Not everything is under control always. And maybe this is part of the motion and the magic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHaving done a film on bullfighting and a singer, would there be another kind of performance he would like to document?<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cNo, what would it be?\u201d Serra says; then breaks into a grin. \u201cI will do a musical comedy. This is something that has been a lot of times in my mind. I think I will end up doing it because I like this idea of musical comedy that\u2019s positive. The spirit of something that is light: poetic and positive. Nowadays, with all this reality of the war and these problems and frictions and tensions and whatever, I\u2019d like to make a \u201cBrigadoon\u201d style musical. Maximum happiness. The opposite of what I\u2019ve been doing all of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe also says that he wished he could\u2019ve directed Maria Callas and Elvis Presley. \u201cElvis should have done dramatic roles, and with the right director, he would have been an amazing dramatic actor. And another idea I had was to make light comedies with Maria Callas, because she did only very very dramatic stuff with Pasolini. Very static like this opera and this intensity and this mythological stuff and very heavy. Why not make a comedy with her?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt might not be boasting. Serra\u2019s films have featured some iconic performances, such as Jean-Pierre L\u00e9aud as Louis XIV in \u201cThe Death of Louis XIV\u201d and Beno\u00eet Magimel in \u201cPacifiction.\u201d Of the latter, Serra says: \u201cIt\u2019s the best performance of his career. Whatever people say: no, this is the best performance. I know it. I\u2019m 100% sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom Wednesday, Serra is back in the editing suite working on his new film \u201cOut of This World\u201d which he hopes to have completed by the end of the year. \u201cIt\u2019s 65% done.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film stars Riley Keough and F. Murray Abraham as part of an American delegation traveling to Russia in the context of the Ukraine war. \u201cIt\u2019s not a war film, it\u2019s about economics. You\u2019ll see what happens in the film, where it goes at the end. It goes to the best scene of recent cinema. This I can tell you. So you will have to wait until the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat sounds like a headline. \u201cYes! And the second headline is \u2018You will have to wait until the end.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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