W: You\u2019ve spoken about the island setting of the film as a kind of place of otherness of isolation. But then you incorporate the refugee crisis?<\/strong><\/p>\nLG: I don\u2019t incorporate anything. I say let\u2019s put these people in Pantelleria assuming that they\u2019re going to have a holiday there. Then you ask, what is Pantelleria? How the wind blows? Who are the inhabitants? What is the temperature\u2026Who comes to Pantelleria and why? Tourists? Some. People who live there and people who come to find a new way and a new life. So when you are honest and truthful to all these elements you put them together and you see how they interact. It comes at the end to the otherness\u2026and how in the end you come to incorporate this otherness into your life or eventually exploit it for your own ethical agenda.<\/p>\n
W: So where do you think that exploitation occurs in the movie?<\/strong><\/p>\nLG: Well it\u2019s a mystery. You, the audience, make your own ideas. I say that more than anything it is about the concept of the other and what we do with it: sexually, politically, anthropologically\u2026what is the other for someone?<\/p>\n
W: Let\u2019s talk finally about Paul Bowles, who was one of your key literary influences whilst making this film.<\/strong><\/p>\nLG: Paul Bowles and Truman Capote were the two people we wanted to infuse in the dialogue and rhythm of the film\u2026The Sheltering Sky <\/em>is a fantastic book about Americans lost in the malaise of Africa. And in a way we have Anglo-Saxons in Africa in\u00a0A Bigger Splash <\/em>because geographically Pantelleria is African\u2026Bowles was tough on the twists and turns of jealousy of everyone involved…that entanglement of attraction and repulsion. I wanted to refresh that Bowlesian sense of doom in the relationship, in the jealousy, in the attraction, in the silent homoeroticism that isn\u2019t exactly <\/em>pointed out but lingers under the surface of A Bigger Splash. <\/em><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\nA Bigger Splash\u00a0is released nationwide February 12th<\/em><\/p>\nWords<\/strong>: Benji Walters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We jump head first into\u00a0A Bigger Splash\u00a0with its one-of-a-kind director, Luca Guadagnino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":64345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9416],"tags":[7501,7915],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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