00:00:00: Normally you add more alternative festivals.

00:00:02: How does it feel to be at Cannes for you?

00:00:04: I'm always grateful whoever accepts the films, so i don't have any obsessions of a specific festival or other... Like in love!

00:00:14: I prefer to accept one who accepts me and not to dream.

00:00:17: Does

00:00:17: this give you inspiration from class conflicts with your film?

00:00:23: To being an environment

00:00:24: that's so

00:00:24: luxurious?!

00:00:25: I didn't put them like this way.

00:00:26: but even prices are great you know, for accommodation I felt like not coming when i saw it's like six hundred euros a night on airbnb.

00:00:36: It is insane but part of the game...I don't like this part and this stupid music everywhere!

00:00:42: This means alot because its very short novel full of social observation and provocative that why the surrealist loved it so much.

00:00:52: that why Buñuel adapted at some point But For me was away an original story inspired by Romanian migrant worker abroad.

00:00:59: so to measure this story with an ancient older story I would like call it adaptation through montage.

00:01:05: they don't adapt the book, i took fragments from HD and put them in contrast my story because of the experience working together in Dracula.

00:01:11: I liked when find her great actress And then you know I hesitated for one reason...I thought she's somehow too beautiful.

00:01:18: a theory is beautiful according to conventional standards that aligns characters to be different.

00:01:24: but I think on these case sites which are good that can go over issue and make a regular person you know in our way.

00:01:31: so yeah that was.

00:01:32: but the reason.

00:01:32: what's actually?

00:01:33: I really think she is great actress very quick, very smart.

00:01:36: Very brave.

00:01:37: She doesn't hesitate if you tell her something...she does not have this self-control obsession.

00:01:42: many actors had like to push herself.

00:01:45: Did you talk

00:01:46: with a lot of housemates?

00:01:47: To research the role?

00:01:48: No talks from my family working abroad And their experiences..I spoke with women working abroad.

00:01:54: There are lots online resources Facebook, Google Roots.

00:01:58: it's about that experience.

00:01:59: It is a very present thing in Romania because there are alot of Romanians working abroad or emigrating its like twenty five percent of the population like five million even more for five millions.

00:02:10: I know so many people who have been to that situation and whenever i go abroad especially countries like UK or Germany Spain Italy There're so many Romanias!

00:02:20: I get into attacks on Uber.

00:02:22: sometimes theres a Romanian...I discuss with these people about their stories.

00:02:26: It's a knowledge I have a lot.

00:02:27: This happened to me in Germany, actually it was nothing France but... I felt like that when my son came and asked for money or made the gesture And i said in German kind girl sorry.. Actually didn't happen because I usually give beggars.

00:02:44: Kind girls don't want money.

00:02:46: Then moved away and heard him cursing me really vulgarly in Romania.

00:02:52: So I turned around and said why are you sorry in Romanian?

00:03:19: Why

00:03:20: the decision to keep the play and novel as separate?

00:03:23: Like that I like this Eisenstein idea of montage where if you just suppose a scene or an image with another image You end up having something different.

00:03:34: so text opposing the video letters of the daughter The main story, the theater adaptation, the fairy tale in the middle of the film.You have a sketch but you Have complex layers that clash together and maybe they create A Different kind of image.

00:03:48: i don't know.

00:03:49: it's different ideas And different stories and different strategies for each one.

00:03:53: I don't have a style, first of all.

00:03:56: And i dont' have an obligation towards my own vision.

00:04:00: So im welcome to anything and for awhile was a bit frustrated but now like it more because Im feeling more free.

00:04:06: Like someone in the daytime you can be hungry in the morning You can be sad in the afternoon or nice time later on You could be horny in evening whatever Its part your old person.

00:04:19: so my films are very different.

00:04:21: It's not transition whatever I can.

00:04:24: Dracula, you looked at a classic historical figure.

00:04:27: now

00:04:27: it's the classic work of literature.

00:04:29: is there new phase or moment in your career that are looking classical sources?

00:04:34: Yes.

00:04:34: Uh...I need more and more something like springboard maybe because i'm not very talented and not original..i only offer good notes to some things but that gives me an enormous pleasure.

00:04:47: cause don't start with white page you know, open the computer or put in a camera and say wow what am I doing now?

00:04:57: So if i start from something uh...and enter into dialogue with that's something..I feel more able to work.

00:05:04: And it is really some kind of interest me.

00:05:07: so its- I feel it's an epistemological process More rich somehow In terms of knowledge.

00:05:16: It makes me feel richer.

00:05:18: What's been your relationship to France and French culture in particular?

00:05:22: I saw you're shorts on Moillier that you did HHS.

00:05:26: Didn't do a short on Moille, like comparing some of the characters from his... Oh

00:05:30: yeah!

00:05:31: That was Dormier!

00:05:32: Ah yes Yes

00:05:34: And you were doing the french Q&A after The Thing.

00:05:38: So what has been your relation with France particularly?

00:05:41: Like French intellectuals?

00:05:43: Well, there is a historical relation between Romania in France and Romanian culture and French culture.

00:05:50: Historical relations was partly broke by communist dictatorship but still remained a lot.

00:05:56: so our language is Latin.

00:06:01: Not easy, but not very difficult to learn French.

00:06:04: And for me was a teenager thing because I discovered a lot of french cinema A lot of French writers which were translated in Romanian and so yeah...I have a strong relation with French culture French literature, French cinema, French theater Avangard the avant-garde France.

00:06:21: I'm ashamed that people say oh why you have many main characters women?

00:06:26: I don't know.

00:06:26: it's maybe beacause i find this situation of woman is some case.

00:06:30: This is more complex and more tragic sometimes or having more layers than the story of a man in that situation.

00:06:39: So it's not programmatic on my part, And also you know even now there are accusations people who didn't see that oh this is male gaze.

00:06:45: so at the moment if your have a woman character then you're accused of male gaze.

00:06:48: If I don't have a women character i'm accused of harassment.

00:06:51: You never do well But its not programatic any... In each case I had another reason For instance these reasons because we mean to work like that.

00:06:59: Then in Milbao book there's a woman inside.

00:07:02: Next film is also with the women, but I mean one of my next films.

00:07:05: Your

00:07:06: films usually focus on working and underclass?

00:07:09: Could you imagine ever to make maybe as filmed

00:07:12: really out from the view

00:07:13: of the bourgeoisie or upper class

00:07:15: ?

00:07:15: I don't have principles that are open for anything so why not !

00:07:19: The middle-class in this film?

00:07:21: how was it inspired

00:07:22: ?

00:07:22: Good question because i dont know what to answer.

00:07:24: It has been a lot from me from Imagination all from sources French culture or from visiting people in France and from history.

00:07:34: And I adapted to the sector for a new time.

00:07:36: at some point, i was about to work with the French screenwriter.

00:07:40: so that's why i wasn't afraid because it said oh this screenwriter will solve my problems.

00:07:45: but the screenwriter says...I read the script..i think is very good , i don't have anything to comment on.

00:07:49: So then i felt like i was going blindly with this movie From This Point Of View But In The End It Seems That There Was Something That I Touched.

00:07:57: Correct I don't know, judging by the reaction of French press.

00:08:27: literally.

00:08:28: so I was a bit lazy and they said well maybe i just you know, im joking.

00:08:32: actually it's much easier to do the long thing if its one rehearsed.

00:08:35: then what u want to do?

00:08:36: The rest of them shot reverse shots here wanted another regime of images And I showed almost like at the beginning of cinema where had whole action in one full shot.

00:08:48: Dracula

00:08:49: was pretty wild.

00:08:51: It is

00:08:52: funny yeah but has lot different media this

00:08:54: time your whore

00:08:55: traditional.

00:08:56: Why that shift?

00:08:57: It's

00:08:58: not a shift.

00:08:58: I always do and want to diversify even more.

00:09:01: So, i hope am able make quiet film.

00:09:05: I made the film for this documentary I made short films I made Dracula so... I'm greedy!

00:09:11: I want everything.

00:09:12: Do you wanna be more prolific?

00:09:14: Yeah..I would love too but I exhaust it anyways.

00:09:17: The real question here in my opinion is That there are real relation which isn't necessarily visible intuitively between the type of films and speed of work.

00:09:29: If you make a film every three or four years, like European system funding imposes to you then end up doing same kind feel as everybody else.

00:09:38: The story might change.

00:09:39: Budgets are more-or-less the same, images is less.

00:09:42: so I discovered that if we want be different from my colleagues at least in Romania You need have a different rhythm Like painting...you know?

00:09:52: You can do sketching for few minutes That's something.

00:09:55: And if you do a painting in two months, it will be different from the sketch.

00:09:59: So my idea of doing sketches is not real films.

00:10:03: I don't have theory and sometimes i dont choose well Or maybe some times i chose.

00:10:07: well I really think location is another character.

00:10:10: In other way Not only background but part of story itself.

00:10:14: I feel more interested paying attention to these places What they represent.

00:10:20: Do we

00:10:20: ever new film that already working on?

00:10:22: You mentioned something

00:10:24: I'm doing next month's independent film, co-produced by my producer in Romania and Rodrigo Teixeira from Brazil and Cristos Constantacopoulos from Greece.

00:10:33: It is going to be again.

00:10:35: coming back to your question it another answer for a classic film called Love Diptych And Is My Unofficial Remake With Different Stories Of Course To Roberto Rossellini Film Called La More Love From nineteen forty eight.

00:10:48: So i try to see what kind of film could have the same theme In Romania today From Romania.

00:10:54: you're always or many times in the West, we are meeting people from the west.

00:10:59: It's not something that is known about Romania and very few things.

00:11:04: So yeah There's a bit of especially with Americans.

00:11:07: for others You know it's a beat they don't know where your from on something like that.

00:11:12: And I think this maybe the job of culture.

00:11:14: what do i know about Iran?

00:11:16: What does the comic element

00:11:28: in your film mean for

00:11:31: you?

00:11:36: And

00:11:38: could imagine to do a

00:11:42: tragedy that's without comics.

00:11:51: Skipping tools just because of wanting to be ex-exclusivism.

00:11:56: We have exclusivism, you know?

00:11:57: Because it's... There is no reason for consider an image on iPhone.

00:12:01: not good mercy.

00:12:02: It's another type of image and has other qualities.

00:12:04: Yeah well there are a lot difference but I don't had that experience at all.

00:12:09: So i played in the film which was here for few minutes.

00:12:12: The Arari win!

00:12:13: I like this!

00:12:14: I made an easy money.