Here’s everything you need to know about the biopic adapted from songthe biography of the famous American intellectual Susan Sontag, played by Kristen Stewart !
Kristen Stewart as Susan Sontag
It’s been a long time since Kristen Stewart gave up teen drama for embody influential women, featured in their biopic. After getting into the skin of the actress John Seberg In Seberg in 2019, then by the princess Lady Diana In spencer in 2021, the 32-year-old actress will embody theessayist, novelist and activist Susan Sontag.
Who was Susan Sontag?
This American intellectual born in 1933 and died in 2004 theorized aesthetics field, an aesthetic very popular in the 60s, based on lightness, irony, provocation and the grotesque. Susan Sontag’s thought constitutes an important moment in the reflections surrounding it links between aesthetics, ethics and politicsas well as his commitment to human rights and the fight against US imperialism. His work On the photo, Facing the pain of others and its Volcano lover OR In America are so far globally acclaimed.
Who is director Kirsten Johnson?
The film will be directed by director and director of photography Kirsten Johnsona big name in busy documentary cinema, awarded by numerous prizes in festivals. This is especially the case with camera personin which the director asks questions documentary ethics. He questions his connection to the sometimes traumatic filmed images of From Bosnia to Texas via Yemen or Afghanistan.
Between drama and documentary
Rejected four chaptersthe biopic will be adapted from songthe award-winning biography of Susan Sontag written by Ben Moser the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. Film producer Gabrielle Tana has revealed that the film will be a drama mixed with a documentary approach, as reported ScreenDaily. The shooting, which is expected to take place in California, New York, Paris and Sarajevo, will begin at the Berlinale, from 16 to 25 February. Gabrielle Tana explained:
” We take advantage of Berlin to kick off the project and film the documentary shooting of Kristen as president of the jury and talk to her about how Sontag will become. »
The American actress is actually going to do it president of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival.
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