In 2018, fifteen-year-old activist Greta Thunberg began a series of hunger strikes to demand that her country’s government take urgent action on climate change. There were many young people participating in this protest all over the world, and their message served to awaken the conscience of a large section of a dormant society who needed a voice to represent a generation that does not want to live on a planet whose future it is. ruined.
Before the ‘Greta Thunberg effect’, Louis Garrel got the idea to develop a screenplay. Jean-Claude Carriere, legendary author responsible for some of the masterpieces of the recently deceased Luis Buñuel. In, A perfectly organized group of kids came up with a plan to save the world.. The first step is to sell adult surplus items without their consent. Why do we want so many things if we won’t be able to use them soon because everything around us will be destroyed?
“When I read about the treatment it sounded like science fiction to me. Are some kids mobilizing for environmentalism? I didn’t see it. I read on the news one day the story of a young Swedish woman who decided to take a series of drastic actions to bring attention to the problem, I called Jean-Claude and told her I said: You are a visionary.
Louis Garrel decided to take on the project, but the epidemic came and everything slowed down. Carrière told him: You have to hurry, because it looks like we’re behind today instead of ahead. “I wanted it to be a film that vividly describes the time we are in, it was part of the situation we were in.”, says the director during his visit to the San Sebastian Festival to present the film in the Perlas section. We shot before, during and after the prison, so the health crisis, the masks come out so that everything that happens remains a witness.”
Louis Garrel does not see himself as an activist, in fact, he is jealous of the new generation and how they are mobilized to change things with their feminist, anti-racist and environmentalist ideologies and awareness. “I feel self-conscious. The children of May 68 (he is the son of the filmmaker Philippe Garrel) became bourgeois after the struggle of our parents. I believe that now a blank page has been written in culture, art and politics. This is a galvanizing current”.
‘A small plan…like saving the planet’ It can be thought of as the second part of Garrel’s previous film, ‘A loyal man’, because it saves the same characters. Now, Abel (Garrel) and Marianne (Laetitia Casta, real-life wife), settled as a couple, and their 13-year-old son, Joseph, embarked on his own path of change that would shake their foundations and make them realize the enormity of the problem. “I think we are still unaware of the tragedy that has befallen us. During the pandemic, I listened to many thinkers. Bruno Latour, and says that COVID is a dress rehearsal for the coming and environmental crisis. Individual actions no longer matter, we do not blame each other, but instead mobilize economic and scientific resources globally”.
This is not a sober or dogmatic film. ‘A small plan…like saving the planet’ A fairy tale with many doses of humor, it is structured as a light and entertaining satire. “It’s a very special film for me because I’ve always felt closer to the world of cinephilia and I’ve explored other things, genres, other issues that directly challenge us here”. On this occasion, instead of looking to the past, to the ‘nouvelle ambiguous’ tradition, he looked to the near future, where it is necessary to reinvent himself to face the problems of the present.
Source: Informacion
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