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"I am not a reality filmmaker, more like someone searching for a truth; that's why professional actors don't satisfy me. I need real backgrounds, real people, real sounds to make fiction. I can't conceive of producing fiction with artificial means.
Born in 1958, Bruno Dumont has made about forty short films: documentaries, commercial and institutional films; and two feature films: The Life of Jesus and Humanity (officially selected for the Cannes Film Festival presided by David Cronenberg in 1999 and First Prize of the Jury & Prize for Best Feminine and Masculine Interpretation. This decision provoked a scandal because the award was given to "non-professional" actors)TwentyNine palms, Flandres (Grand Prix , Cannes Film Festival 2006). |
