If it were the Palacio de Festivales, the public of the Cannes Festival expected anxious Wednesday – in some streets crowded with curious under a punishing sun – the appearance of Tom Cruise with his Mission: Impossible. Final sentence, Inside the cinephile atmosphere throbbing with the possibility that Robert De Niro was turning on in a talk in which he was going to talk about his career before 1,000 people, after having received the golden palm of honor last night. Against they played the usual Laconism of the actor, his armor against any issue and that the moderator was JR, a French photographer and filmmaker, who became popular among the cinephilia for his collaboration with Agnès Varda in Faces and places (2017) and that has been filming a documentary about his family for three years. Film, films well; Now ask …
To start material, and focusing on his oral park, JR reminded him of what DiCaprio had said about how every word of Niro counts, and the French asked him if it is true that he measures his statements. “Sometimes,” he replied with a half smile before more than a thousand people who crowded the debussy room, the second capacity of the festivals’ palace.
The conversation started with a memory of De Niro’s father, a painter, of which the actor still keeps the study intact – “frozen in time,” explained JR, who has visited him for years – of the artist and how JR and Niro decided to start the newspapers of Niro Father. Little more took him out of that moment, and what they have continued to film, a project that has not yet finished and Finance HBO. “We have no delivery date, we are working freely because we need time. There are days that nothing happens, and in others the spark jumps. For me the important thing is to move forward with the documentary.”
After projecting 15 minutes of that film, in which JR plays with immense photographs of the filmmaker’s parents and with all kinds of drone shots, on the screen the French asks: “Are you afraid of dying?” And he replies: “It is inevitable, why be afraid.” And one of his usual fatigue gestures arises.
The same has happened when they have continued talking, again on stage. An example: “Who do you make this film, for yourself or for your children?” “For all”. No more. Or when opening and seeing fabrics with paintings in the study, they discovered that some were not from their parent, but of their mother, Virginia Admiral. that left art to take care of De Niro Senior and Niro Junior. “I had simply forgotten” … although later something else was exposed about her love for her.
De Niro often used the tricks of not hearing for the echo or asking to repeat the question to answer what he wanted about his relationship with his parents and his family. A verbal fencing in which no one wins the Oscar winner for The godfather II and Wild bull, That after a very long parliament of JR he released a “yes, exactly.” And he stayed so comfortable. The most that he acknowledged is that he has never abandoned a project. Therefore, it will continue with that, decades, according to JR, who is not tired of work either.
The ‘splendor in the grass’
With the public’s questions, air and politics entered the conversation. An assistant from the Republic of Georgia asked him about the self -critics. “People know perfectly what is correct and fair, and if they do not, of course it is aware of it. You have to do the right thing, make decisions that improve us collectively,” said the 81 -year -old New Yorker.
A son of Harry Saltzman, producer of the Bond saga, spoke to him about the problem of dealing with the family legacy, and Niro smiled, thanked him and shrugged his shoulders. In the end, he explained that the documentary also had “some therapy.” He advised that the instincts continue in the performance and that he likes to go to the cinema to maintain “a tradition.” On the future of cinema, he confessed that he does not have “not even a theory.” Has your work influenced your personality? “I am not sure to be able to answer that question, but I know that to act they help vital experiences, and that when I aged I have more tools.”
Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, James Dean or Laurence Olivier. Those were the names that Niro pronounced when asked about his referents in their beginnings. “That’s, do you want more? (…). The first movie that really marked me was Splendor in the grass, When I saw her with 18 years … before, with 15, 16 years I had seen many others: Desert centaurs, deep roots... But Kazan’s pushed to acting. “Doesn’t you really be afraid of death?” Yes I have it, but we have no choice and that leads me to face it in another way. ”
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