Sarah Polley Is Grateful to Women Filmmakers Who Tell Her, As a Director, “How Severe You’ll Have to Be at Work”

Sarah Paul at its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival women talk His last film as a director realized how lucky he was as an actor to have worked with so many filmmakers. When they saw that he wanted to work behind the camera, they told him it was “cruel”.

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“This movie started with three women talking a lot,” Polley said. He was talking about Dede Gardner as producer through Plan B Entertainment, Frances McDormand as actor and producer through Hear/Say Productions, and Paul.

Polly talks about three female directors she has worked with and helped her as directors: 1999’s Audrey Wells. Geneva; Kathryn Bigelow, directed by Paul water weight in 2000; and films by director Isabelle Coixet my life without me in 2003 and The Secret Life of Words in 2005.

“What happened to that generation of female filmmakers, when they saw someone coming in who was starting to show some interest (directing), those women held my hand and said, ‘You do it,’ and that’s how fierce you are. . “This must be it! So he had the mentorship and I had that role model,” Pauly said while speaking on stage at the Telluride Film Festival. Frances McDorman presented him with the silver medal of the festival.

Paul also admired director Atom Egoyan, who starred himself in many films. sweet sequel and served as executive producer on Polley’s feature film debut, away from it.

He said that Egoyan “spent a lot of time with me when I started making my own short films.”

Pauly also noted that Egoian “still had my 911 call” when it “really crashed”.

But Polly admitted that it took her a long time to overcome her fears at work and that acting like a girl was “not the most positive experience”.

“There were exceptions to the rules, there always are… but overall, it was not a great experience and in some cases quite traumatic.

That experience gave him “a sort of allergic reaction to success” and if things went well, he said, “it gave me back the experience of being a junior actor and other people’s investment in what I did before.” I was ready for this. It really took me a long time to realize how much I love to do this and not let the usual fear or hatred dictate the decisions I make in my life. I guess it was a relatively new experience for me to realize the incredible wealth of storytelling.”

At the same time, he introduced the Polly dynamic. women talking The cast included McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Liv McNeil, Kate Hallett, Michelle McLeod, Sheila McCarthy and Judith Ivey.

Ben Whishaw, the only male lead in the film, was unable to make it to the Colorado Rockies for the screening.

women talking It will be released through United Artists on December 2, following festival screenings throughout the fall.