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Gilles Paquet-Brenner on adapting Dark Places
Dark Places is a dark mystery thriller adapted from Gillian Flynn’s 2009 novel that preceded her breakout hit Gone Girl. Writer/director Gilles Paquet-Brenner has created a taut character piece out of the work while also assembling an impressive cast that includes Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christina Hendricks and Tye Sheridan.
Paquet-Brenner came to the attention of art-house fans with his 2001 film Pretty Things starring Marion Cotillard. Recent English language works include 2009’s Walled In and 2010’s Sarah’s Key.
Dork Shelf spoke to the director from his home in France.
Let’s start at the beginning. How did you get attached to the project, to the book, and to the amazing cast?
I read the book 5 years ago now when I was finishing Sarah’s Key. Gone Girl was not even written at that time, so it was just a book from a great writer that I didn’t know at the time. I fell in love with it, I really thought that it could be my next film, so we checked on the rights, they were available, and so we started the arduous process to get them. So that was that.
The reason I fell in love with it was the incredible story and characters, the mystery plot, blended in an incredible world that I was not very familiar with – Kansas, the 80s, the farmer’s crisis – and it felt also very relevant, as a social comment because. I read that in 2010, just in the aftermath of the financial crisis, with all of the home foreclosures and stuff. It just felt like the perfect movie to make for me.
I met with Gillian Flynn and we became friends. She drove me around Kansas City so I could have a better idea of all of the places she had in mind when she wrote the book.
Once we had our first draft, we went out there and there was a lot of interest on the script and I guess it’s because in Hollywood there is a lot of big tent pole projects, but there are not so m © James Travers The above content is owned by frenchfilms.org and must not be copied. journal of war & culture studies, Vol. 6 No. 2, May, 2013, 127–140 Elle s’appelait Sarah and the Limits of Postwar Witnessing and Memory Andrew Sobanet Department of French, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA This study offers an analysis of Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s Elle s’appelait Sarah (2010) as historical and testimonial fiction. It investigates narrative strategies and storytelling choices used to represent France during the Nazi Occupation and to promote the importance of remembering and bearing witness to that period in the twenty-first century. This investigation will show that while the film’s representation of 1940s France is admirable in its historical accuracy, the promotion of postwar rememoration is hampered by the use of a variety of complex and unconventional storytelling strategies. That narrative complexity results from Paquet-Brenner’s close adaptation of Tatiana de Rosnay’s novel Sarah’s Key. This study shows that de Rosnay resorts to certain storytelling techniques due to generic constraints and the borrowing of tropes from non-fictional Occupation narratives. The film and the novel ultimately present a case study of genre and narrative authority in relation to the limits of the transmission of memory and the representation of witnessing. Specifically, this study contends that the story of Sarah Starzynski shows—provocatively, though unconsciously—that the distinctive power of testimonial war narratives might be limited to those told by first-hand witnesses and their immediate descendants. keywords vicarious witnessing, memory, postmemory, Nazi Occupation of France, Holocaust narratives, French fiction and film Based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s 2007 novel Sarah’s Key, Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s Elle s’appelait Sarah (2011) debuted in French cinemas in October 2010, a few months after Rose Bosch’s critically acclaimed La Rafle.1 Both films deal with the most notoriou French opera singer (born 1941) This article is about the French opera singer. For the American actress, see Eve Brenner. Ève Brenner (born 11 September 1941) is a French opera singer notable for her voice that spanned five octaves. Brenner was born in Saint-Chartier in central France where her parents who were both musicians and refugees were living. Her father, Ludwig Brenner, who was of Jewish-German descent, was captured and deported during World War II. He died in captivity in 1942 leaving her mother Jeanne alone to raise their children. When the family returned to Paris at the end of the war, her mother rejoined her orchestra and left her children in the care of their grandparents. Aged 14, Brenner left school to join her mother's orchestra. Brenner studied opera at the Conservatoire de Paris from the age of 20. She sang in films, including Manon des Sources. She released several singles and EPs from the 1970s onward. Her single "Morning on the River" peaked at number 96 in Australia in February 1979.Elle s'appelait Sarah (2010)
Directed by Gilles Paquet-BrennerFilm Synopsis
Julia Jarmond is an American journalist and writer who has been living in France for the past twenty years with her husband Bertrand. The latter is a successful architect who is presently restoring several buildings which his family acquired by somewhat dubious means during the Second World War. This fact leads Julie to take an interest in France's treatment of Jews during the Occupation - in particular the terrible Vel d'Hiv episode. It was in 1942 that, acting under instructions from the Vichy government, the French police rounded up thousands of Jews and detained them in inhuman conditions at the Winter Velodrome in Paris, before sending them away to the concentration camps. Appalled by what she uncovers, Julia develops an affinity for one of the victims of the roundup, a 10-year-old girl named Sarah. What began as a routine piece of research for an article turns into a traumatic personal affair for Julia as she lifts the lid on a long buried family secret... Elle s'appelait Sarah and the Limits of Postwar Witnessing and Memory
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