Alice Diop & Frederick Wiseman in Conversation | NYFF60

Enjoy a special talk from the 60th New York Film Festival with Alice Diop and Frederick Wiseman, whose films Saint Omer (opening Friday at FLC with Q&As!) and A Couple, respectively, were both NYFF60 Main Slate selections. The conversation was moderated by Dessane Lopez Cassell, editor-in-chief of SEEN journal with translation by Nicholas Elliott.
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French filmmaker Alice Diop has said that it was the work of Frederick Wiseman that inspired her to become a documentarian. It is fitting, then, that NYFF60's Main Slate featured new films by Wiseman and Diop that speak to each other in extraordinary ways-including in their deviation from documentary into the more delicate terrain between fiction and nonfiction. Both A Couple (Wiseman) and Saint Omer (Diop) take true stories of extraordinary and fraught women as their bases, probing the formal possibilities and limits of cinema in revealing the inner lives of real people. The two directors convened for a conversation about the turn to narrative cinema, the cultural and generational distinctions of filmmaking in France and the United States, their respective approaches to cinema as a mode of systemic critique, and more. Moderated by Dessane Lopez Cassell (editor-in-chief, SEEN journal).
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[@ernestacosta5958]

Just saw Saint Omer. Excellent writing. Excellent direction. No fancy camera moves or special effects just narrative filmmaking at its best. The majority of the women in the audience were weeping. When a film can touch you like this, it is a remarkable accomplishment especially being that this is Miss Diop's first feature. This has Oscar written all over it. I think its the best film nationally and internationally.

[@phillipgragg9562]

Wonderful conversation between these three. Brilliant work by the translator as well. I was touched to hear Denis's kind words for the two. Cinema's in great hands.