Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco arrived in the German capital and debuted his latest feature, the dream, at this year’s competition at the Berlin Film Festival.
The film is led by Oscar winner Jessica Chastain. The session was politically oriented, with most questions being directed towards Chastain. Early on, the Oscar winner was quized into our political issues in her hometown, and her answers were determined.
“I’m a hopeful person, so I’m building a home in America,” Chastain said. “I think you have to participate in order to create the environment, culture and society you want. I’m not going to give up on my country. Yes, we’re still very hopeful. I want to say there are a lot of people. We are fighting a good fight.”
In a dream, Chastain stars as a wealthy San Francisco socialist and philanthropist Jennifer. Young Mexican lover Fernando – a dancer he met in a dance school program run by the Mexican Family Foundation – shows up at his home in San Francisco after a dangerous, illegal journey across the border, and his love story begins. The story becomes complicated.
Chastain said the film’s subject matter makes the film “undoubtedly political” by exploring the relationship between the United States and Mexico.
The film is Chastain’s second collaboration with Franco, which follows 2023 memories. The actor said he replied to Michelle’s work, “Because it provokes and delves into issues that many filmmakers don’t want to explore.”
“He’s not saying the right thing or the wrong thing, but what he’s doing is to spark thoughts and debate,” Chastain said.
Chastain later praised the female characters in Franco’s films, explaining it to be more challenging and realistic than many of the works traditionally given to women on screen.
“The first way to erase someone’s humanity is to erase their mistakes and mistakes. For years I have argued for the role of complicated women, especially like martyrs and saints. And in the US, where female characters were just supporting them,” Chastain said.
“I want to play characters who make a lot of mistakes and mistake steps. I don’t care if they like or appealing, but I want people to talk about them. And I want it to feel authentic and human. We all can do a lot of things, great, healthy, wonderful, beautiful, and horrible and destructive behavior.”
Currently, Mexican ballerina Isaac Hernandez, a leading dancer at the American Ballet Theater, is a co-star who will face Chastain as Fernando. Hernandez was at the Presser this afternoon with friends from Chastain and Rupert, who will close out the cast alongside Marshall Bell and Eligio Melendez. Producers are Franco, Eréndira Núñez Larios and Alexander Rodnyansky. Match Factory handles sales.
When she took a quiz where she is currently watching her career as a Hollywood actor, Chastain said she cemented a certain amount of freedom that was helped by working with directors like Franco.
“We’re working with filmmakers like Michelle to work on such low-budget films that aren’t directed by the committee, which means we’re gaining more freedom,” she said. “I live in New York. I work with artists I want to work with. I’m excited to go to work. I feel really happy to be in the industry, I’m not called to do anything that doesn’t excite me. If I don’t want, I feel that I can’t actually do six movies a year now. I work when I want to Masu.”
Elsewhere in the session, Chastain praised the crops of this year’s awards season film, encouraged all surveillance and encouraged the search for Mohammad Rasoulov’s “sacred fig seeds.”
“It’s a genius film and it’s not attracting enough attention,” she said. “Everyone should watch this movie.”
My dream will be screened in Berlin tonight.
