CLOSE — Lukas Dhont's Quietly Powerful Coming-of-Age Movie
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The Importance of Personal Emotion
I love when the line between performing and being gets more fluid. I think in my work with actors I very much imply what I learned through documentary. In many ways I would never have been able to direct that. Or it would have become very copy-based of something I would have said. The whole courtyard was their arena. They could move wherever. It's like something bigger than him. He knows he didn't wait for his friend but at the same time he doesn't completely understand why himself. That fight scene? I don't know if I would call it improvised because they have read the script once in the very beginning never again though. So they remember a bit that scene and we
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