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The Viennale will open on Thursday, October 17, with the French film C’EST PAS MOI (IT’S NOT ME) by Leos Carax .
C'EST PAS MOI is an unconventional, essayistic and very personal film by Leos Carax that combines autobiography, film history and contemporary history in just 42 minutes. The director reflects on his medium, his role models such as Vertov, Chaplin and Godard, and creates a lively mix of cinematic influences. A multi-layered reflection on love, beauty and cinema.
"I chose C’EST PAS MOI by Leos Carax as the opening film because it fits wonderfully into the cinematographic universe that I would like to see represented in the Viennale program", says Viennale director Eva Sangiorgi. "In fact, it is a film that pays tribute to the tradition of author cinema and pays homage to Jean Luc Godard in particular. In this way, it is connected with a deeply political, exploratory cinema that chooses the form of filmmaking itself as the object of reflection. At the same time, C’EST PAS MOI is a filmic self-confession, which, through the works of a great auteur like Carax, combines personal memories with communal ones to create a historical consciousness. It’s a film that formulates an ethic of its craft, which I also would like to declare as my manifest for this edition of the festival. And I am certain that the Viennale audience will appreciate the irony of this exceptionally intelligent play with images."
The leading actor Denis Lavant is expected in Vienna for the second screening of C'EST PAS MOI.
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