At the end of a film, Jim Jarmusch often falls ill. The discomfort varies, it could be a cold, the flu or worse. But the phenomenon has been repeated for years. In his filmography, the filmmaker tends to ask more questions than answers. Regarding his health, however, he came to a clear conclusion: “It’s really difficult to make a film. And it’s as good as the suitcase. It requires a lot of stamina and concentration. If you’re directing and writing, you’re involved in every detail. People think: ‘Oh, it’s glamorous. You’re with Cate Blanchett, you’re having tea’. No tienen ni idea.” He has now been speaking for twenty-two years, for his 72nd birthday. And also for the sleepless nights, the camera failures, the last minute changes or the storm which engulfed the places where I had planned to film a sequence of Dead man. As soon as you start your training, turn to Tai Chi. And also a quote from his professional partner Werner Herzog: “You have to be an athlete”. We, in your case, are alone, without coaches or drugs like a big office behind.
Then, he narrowly climbed to the top step of the podium: Father Mother Sister Brotherwhich begins on December 24 in Spain, received the Golden Lion at the last Venice festival. Jarmusch’s first words from the stage were: “Oh, shit.” This could be attributed to lack of habit, for an author celebrated by his public, but unaccustomed to winning prizes: the Oscars were never nominated otherwise. Yes, that’s what firmó works like Paterson, Rotating Flowers, Ghost Dog: The Path of the Samurai, Noche en la terra THE Extraños in paradise. However, in the background, the beginning of his speech was summarized by a distinct, inimitable director, independent in every sense of the word. A guy who is confident in himself and who is in love with cinema, music, art, human complexity and contradictions. And criticizes big business, Hollywood, nationalism, greed for money and Israel’s “genocide” in Palestine. Of all the words spoken in Venice in a conversation that began: “I hope what you’re saying makes sense. I’m really missing something.” The conversation eventually continued for half an hour thanks to the intervention of the director considering his own agenda. Jarmusch, as in, breaking away from the system.
At this point, it is clear that you prefer to free yourself. In cinema, in music and, probably, in life. The latest album from his group Squrl, Silver mistwas presented as “enthusiastically marginal”. The creator defined himself as a “amateur”, among other reasons why the word contains the same root of “to love”. “I love cinema, I watch a film every day. But this world, really, doesn’t affect me,” Tuesday. Basically, it’s located on opposite sides of Hollywood since its birth: in Coyahoga Falls, Ohio, on the opposite side of the United States map. And then it was more time for the young businessman and film and theater critic, in New York and Paris, to discover if his passion for shows, concerts, films and counterculture could become a profession. We demonstrated talent, and even more: consistency with ourselves. A rarity which has gradually acquired legendary shades. As if your white hair was always accompanied by sunglasses.
“Being an independent filmmaker means that I choose my collaborators, I share, the editing, the final cut. If you put money into my film, I don’t tell you how to do it, that’s how it is. (The directors) know that I’m very big, and if I don’t live in these conditions, I don’t work. ‘We finance you, but we establish the final version’. No, thank you.
If you say you only see your big ones once, hanging out in a store with strangers, and never again. He is said to have founded Lee Marvin’s Hijos club, which also included Tom Waits, Nick Cave and others similar enough to the famous actor to be able to claim a family connection. He is known to be friends with Aki Kaurismäki, another unique filmmaker, and several film and music stars who often appear in his wide range. Its DNA comes from a unique blend: American with Czech, German and Irish roots. This is why: “I don’t like borders and nationalities. I like the particular aspects which distinguish cultures from each other, but also those which combine and diffuse the differences.”
In his films, it is clear that he is good or bad: there are, quite simply, human beings. And contradictions, like those that Jarmusch himself admits and accepts. He parades through Venice, loves Paris, celebrates the beauty of the two cities while denouncing that “they are built on colonialism”. She considers any funding from companies of a certain size to be “sucia”, even if she accepts that they will take more of her art. I swore not to show Father Mother Sister Brother In Israel, one of its distributors, Mubi, is linked to a defense investment group in Netanyahu’s army. Live, and assume your paradojas: this applies to the director, just as it does to his characters.
Taxi drivers, dreamers, poets or asesinos, always busy with daily affairs: even just chatting and enjoying Coffee and cigarettesanother of his most acclaimed titles. “I love human expression and try to embrace its complexity. Imagination, in a way, is my religion,” adds Jarmusch. Even more universal, perhaps, it is the center of Father Mother Sister Brother, his new work in chapters ―a triptych―. Priests, mothers and children who do not have time to meet, but who also have to separate soon after; hours that pass too slowly, until they speed up and it’s late; people who always know each other, but sometimes nothing; hugs, looks, nostalgia, hartazgo, resentments, love. The filmmaker is confronted with the greatest contradiction: family.
Jarmusch, moreover, knows how to tell it with pauses, subtlety and irony: “The truth is that there are many things that are not in this film: no action, no drama, no sex, nudity or violence…”. Some silences last longer than their dialogues. The designer recalls his visit to the tomb of Japanese maestro Ozu in Kamakura, whose tomb has only one word, 無 (mu): “It means, in a way, the space between things. Sometimes that doesn’t even matter anymore, just like the unplayed notes.” Consider that the final result of Father Mother Sister Brother It’s very close to what I originally designed, also making it more flexible and able to change plans on the go. It’s all very spontaneous. But it’s very hard work: “It takes a lot of effort to make it seem like there’s no one there. This film is calm and simple. And it requires a lot of attention to every word or detail. In fact, it’s much more exhausting than filming 20 zombies rising from their graves.”
What happened in Los muertos no muerenhis previous film. Never, since he began his career with Permanent vacationJarmusch had been without a start for six years. But sometimes I never find something I didn’t want. “In my last film I did not interfere creatively, but only with my emotions, I repeated things like ‘Exceeded the presupuesto’ or ‘We are not going to pay you.’ The planned opening for big industry ended so badly that it was never repeated: when the budget cuts proposed by Harvey Weinstein were rejected, Dead man, then the all-powerful dueño at Miramax sabotaged the film’s distribution.
“I don’t like being oppressed by stupid rules,” says Jarmusch. HAS Father Mother Sister Brother I have a long argument with a union member that still bothers me. Limits of contesting the hypothesis which forced us to change the order of filming and to film no more than 48 kilometers from New York: if that were the case, let’s say, at 45, right at the limit, in New Jersey. The author says he is pro-union, he is one of the directors and screenwriters of the United States, but he laments: “I intend to protect workers in big companies, but I don’t do it. So they don’t protect us from anything. They ignore our assumption of respecting harmful standards.” The creator believes that film production has become complicated, that he has to “work” more than before. Yya was ordered not to film his next work in his country.
“All my films have a similar style. Cinematography integrates language, music, timing, color, composition, camera position, rhythm, performance, writing. As the style with which it is presented is the way of presenting it, this seems very important to me. Scorsese once said that it defines a filmmaker much more than the content of his works”, Sostiene Jarmusch. In your case, let’s say the key lies in the configuration. Allí brings together everything he filmed and puts it into shape: “It’s like forcing a block of marble from a cave to sculpt a horse and you realize that in reality it’s an antelope. Or a donkey. It’s different, but you have to accept it because that’s what the material tells you.” He always takes the time needed, even though he says he’s still learning. And it doesn’t depend on the past: “I don’t analyze these things, I look back or to older films. The most important thing is the next one.” It seems that you are suffering and that in the end you will be sick. Lots of contradictions. One more.
About The Author
