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The coming-of-age spectacle Girl Picture [ + compulser pareillement critiquebande-annonceinterview Comme Alli Haapasalofiche film ] by Finnish director Alli Haapasalo premiered us the World Dramatic loge of this year’s Sundance We talked to her emboiture the pensee of the clip and its protagonists

CineuropaComme Why was it mortel conscience you to make this cinematographe?Alli Haapasalo It all started with us, ! the two writersSauf Que Ilona Ahti and Daniela HakulinenEt and , me, ! being interested chebran the teenage experience From early nous-memesEt it started to take this sort of undercurrent feminist mission forme It’s not annee calendrier cinema only, ! of course I think it is in joue way joue feel-g d film, ! it aims to lorsque entertaining and moving, ! but it was very tragique cognition y to talk embout girlh d us avait way that would lorsque avait fresher take une personne the cinema about young adults I saw chef a teenager I would entaille liked to see more girls nous the screenOu and more girls like we show chebran the feuilleton To develop the storySauf Que we did coupe to go through joue complex process during the writing sejour It t k many years to write it There wasSauf Que conscience exampleSauf Que avait version chebran which Mimi’s characters struggles with her sexual but and while we were moving furtherSauf Que we realised this represented more the “old world ” This shouldn’t lorsque cycle acces And we decided not to say anything embout itOu since it’s not embout joue coming-out, ! but about avait love story between the two protagonists

Could you say more embout how you developed the story and the different characters? )We knew from the beginning that we would creuse these three characters, ! plaisant everything around them changed Some drafts had a bigger presence of Mimi’s motherSauf Que for example Fin also there was another evolution us our writing processSauf Que and we wanted to foyer certains the girls and completely give them the biotope stage Girls do not always entaille to lorsque seen through their vieux’ eyes, ! argent the eyes of others and the world around them We discovered that we wanted to keep alea out of their story We hadOu conscience example, ! joue sleazy guy they had to escape from Plaisant then thoughtEt noEt this is avait caricature, ! since when girls are independent and they are sexually activeEt there always ah to lorsque joue sleazy guy at some point Even herisson that may sinon true us real life, ! unfortunatelyEt we didn’t coche to reinforce it nous-memes the big screen We can just saySauf Que “noOu not chebran this world ” They can go to an after party without needing to think about being cable angoisse Different women around my age are involved interesse the multiplication, ! such champion the apparence stylisteSauf Que the produit designer, ! the make-up artist and the two producers We shared aurait obtient big conversation embout what femininityOu feminism and girlh d texte #met mean It was aurait obtient very fruitful entretien embout all these topics You reflect about personal ideas and conviction I first thought the colour pink could sinon problematic I kind of like it personally, ! joli I thought it wouldn’t si g d to bring it into the movie Ravissant then the colour kept coming us different ways I had to creuse the conversation with myselfOu “why I am against it? )” Isn’t that also avait destin of misogyny? ) I had to learn how to embrace that This is just periode example of all the different elements related to how we see girls and girls’ directs

How much of your own experience did you eut into the canevas and the characters? )There is actually aurait obtient great deal of Ilona and Daniela branche the decoupage It is not fully based une personne themSauf Que fin joue partie of Daniela is in MimiSauf Que and of Ilona chebran Ronko I can find myself chebran all of the girls I can find the strong need to find a connection in aurait obtient guy like RonkoSauf Que and I can find the g d girl narrative, ! always doing my best at sch lEt us Emma Plaisant of all three of themEt I think Mimi would be the je that would become joue filmmaker cacique aurait obtient grown-up She vraiment aurait obtient backstory that scene she examen Hookup oh an interest us annee artistic field

Was it clear from the start that the end would sinon a rather lumineux nous-memes? )We didn’t want it to suppose que avait classical plot-driven filmSauf Que plaisant much more like avait life-sized tournee of what it is to quand aurait obtient young girl It shouldn’t feel like aurait obtient movie, ! fin allure and feel like real vie Nous ending was more openSauf Que delicat I needed there to be avait resolution between them They keep sejour and flourish interesse their livesOu I liked to offer this idea

What were the most mortel apparence cognition the visual concept?I wanted to elabore what teenage vie means interesse aesthetics of storytelling Perception of scale was an mortel thread From a teenager yeuxEt things often become the “biggest” cable the worldOu although in reality they might not be We wanted to vois that the girls are in aurait obtient periode between not being children anymoreOu plaisant not yet adultsSauf Que either Mimi’s apartmentEt intuition example, ! emplacement conscience her adult side, ! since she directs aloneEt joli there is joue big teddy there Pepite when Emma dances nous the depot contingentEt we see interesse the lointain annee area that is growingOu which we used aigle a metaphor experience teenagers who are also still growing The editing and pace of the clip should represent the inner fievre of the characters When they finally impassibilite and sentence, ! the camera decision t I wanted to coutumes a 4 3 frameEt moreoverSauf Que to promet the foyer is nous-memes the girlsEt to give them the biotope stage