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'The Ugly Stepsister': Director Emilie Blichfeldt reframes Cinderella
Euronews Culture sits down with Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt to talk about her savage and thought-provoking reframing of the Cinderella story, which wowed audiences in Sundance and Berlin.
“Most of us end up like the stepsisters - cutting off our toes to try to fit the shoe!”
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Berlinale interview: ‘Honey Bunch’ - Deconstructing love in darkness
What would you for love? We sit down with Canadian filmmakers Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli to talk about their follow-up to 2020’s ‘Violation’ – ‘Honey Bunch’, a haunting and strangely tender deconstruction of all the things we believe to be love and devotion.
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Berlinale interview: 'What Marielle Knows' - German comedy, anyone?
What would you do if your child could suddenly read your mind?
We sit down with German filmmaker Frédéric Hambalek to talk about his Competition selected film 'What Marielle Knows' - a taut, biting and frequently hilarious dark comedy.
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Terrence Malick: How to biograph the unknowable director
"The Magic Hours", the first comprehensive biography of Hollywood’s most mysterious movie makers, has hit shelves. British film critic and biographer John Bleasdale spoke to Euronews Culture on delving into the famously media-shy director’s hidden life.
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Oscar-nominated French director Coralie Fargeat on 'The Substance'
Having just been nominated for five Academy Awards – including Best Picture and Best Director – there seems to be no stopping French director Coralie Fargeat’s 'The Substance'. Euronews Culture sat down with the filmmaker to discuss the film and the vital changes society needs to implement.
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Putin’s end-of-year presser: ‘When everything is quiet, we are bored’
As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is going into its third winter, Russian President Vladimir Putin held its annual end-of-year press-conference, two days after a Kyiv-orchestrated killing of a high-ranking general on the streets of Moscow.
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Mohammad Rasoulof on Iranian censorship, fanaticism and love
Dissident Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof fled his country this year in order to present his new film to the world and to keep working freely. He speaks to Euronews Culture about the year that changed his life and representing Germany at the Oscars.
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Noémie Merlant on 'The Balconettes', #MeToo and the 'feminist' label
Euronews Culture sits down with French actress-director Noémie Merlant to talk about her new directorial effort 'Les femmes au balcon' ('The Balconettes'), the state of #MeToo in the French film industry, the 'feminist' label, and how serious topics should be explored via comedy and genre cinema.
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Meet Ruy de Carvalho, Portugal's oldest working actor on stage
At the age of 97 and a half, Ruy de Carvalho has earned the status of the world's oldest actor still working in theatre. With no plans to leave the stage, he received Euronews Culture during the production of Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap".
