David Cronenbergcertainly has enough experience to know when an audience is not connecting with a film.
Its the pressure of theCannes Film Festival.
Life without humor is not something I could bear.
Writer-director David Cronenberg introduces the U.S. premiere of “The Shrouds” during the 62nd New York Film Festival.Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for FLC
To me, movies are children playing in a sandbox, Cronenberg said.
you could get so serious about it because of the money, because of the time pressure.
The atmosphere on a production, similarly, should also be kept light, Cronenberg said.
I heard that an Ingmar Bergman set was actually hilarious and a lot of laughs.
… That makes sense to me because the seriousness goes into the filmmaking.
Lim asked Cronenberg to reflect on how his real-life experience with grief informed the creation ofThe Shrouds.
His wife of 43 years, Carolyn Cronenberg, died in 2017.
It is not therapeutic.
Its something else, but its not that.
Then when youre making the movie, its the same thing.
The you as a craftsperson takes over.
… And thats the distance that you have and I think you have to have.
