Directors Jessica Hausner, Lukas Turtur, and Mia Wasikowska wave. , Photo Credit: Reuters
Cannes endured the nauseating sight of someone eating their own vomit on Monday, but the film’s star Mia Wasikowska said it was a dark satire on the challenges teenagers face.
The film festival last year awarded its top prize to a film with a 15-minute vomiting sequence, triangle of sadnessAnd this year got its gross-out scene club zero, this time set around a nutritional cult. In one particularly revolting scene, a girl who wishes to save the planet makes herself sick in front of her horrified parents and then eats her vomit with a fork.
Wasikowska, known from Alice in Wonderland And crimson peak, said that the film uses eating disorders and cults to explore the concerns of younger generations facing climate change and global inequalities. Wasikowska said, “I always think that if I were a teenager now, I would be so terrified of this world that we’ve inherited.” AFP,
“I found that these kids join this class because they care about the planet, a lot of them want to eat less meat, be more conscious. That’s the most beautiful part of youth. And it gets polluted, gets affected.” goes.
The new feature from Austrian director Jessica Hausner focuses on a prestigious European college and a group of teenagers who fall under the influence of Ms. Novak (Wasikowska), who advocates “conscious eating.”
Essentially it means eating nothing at all to save the planet and move out of the consumer culture.
talking to AFP Just ahead of the film’s premiere in Cannes on Monday, Hausner said his film explored what happens when you follow an extreme idea to its limits. “It’s not meant to make people uncomfortable, it’s meant to show how bigotry works,” Hausner said of the stomach-churning vomiting scene. With its satirical tone and touch of irreverent humour, it echoes the themes and style of triangle of sadnesswhich won the Palme d’Or for Sweden’s Ruben Ostlund, who is heading this year’s jury.
Hausner and Wasikowska, an Australian actress who has starred in films by Tim Burton, Jim Jarmusch and David Cronenberg, researched cults and cults. The key for Hausner was to make the teacher sincere in his beliefs rather than an evil manipulator. Wasikowska said, “Jessica was completely insistent that she is a true believer and truly believes that what she is doing is right.” The children and Ms. Novak “start to believe something that we would normally call false and paranoid,” Hausner said, and it is very difficult to accept that people believe in ideas that are catastrophic or destructive.
Hausner’s final feature little joeGoing Too Far, about an experiment in plant breeding, was in competition at Cannes in 2019 and won Best Actress for Britain’s Emily Beacham.
like that movie, club zero Uses strong colors and creates an eerie atmosphere with a touch of the absurd. “I don’t make films set in a particular time, so I try to create an artificial style with the scenes,” Hausner said, adding that she was “bored” of naturalism.