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Byzantium
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Cast (principale): Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller, Tom Hollander, Daniel Mays, Caleb Landry Jones, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Thure Lindhardt.
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Informazioni: Byzantium è un film del 2012 diretto da Neil Jordan e con protagoniste Saoirse Ronan e Gemma Arterton. Il film è basato sulla pièce teatrale di Moira Buffini A Vampire Story, autrice anche della sceneggiatura. Presentato in anteprima il 9 settembre 2012 alla 37° edizione del Toronto International Film Festival, il film sarà distribuito nelle sale nel corso del 2013. // Byzantium is a 2012 British-Irish fantasy thriller film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton and Jonny Lee Miller. The story concerns a mother and daughter vampire duo.
Trama: Eleanor e sua madre Claire, tenutaria di un bordello, hanno un segreto incofessabile: da ducento anni sono due vampiri, costrette ad una vita di sangue e sofferenza. La storia delle due creature viene raccontata allo spettatore fra presente e passato. // Eleanor and her mother Claire, maitresse of a brothel, have a secret: they have been vampires from two hundred years, forced to live a life of blood and suffering. The story of the two creatures is told to the viewer between past and present.
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Julia_Katina.
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I want see this movie. I love vampires and I love the last (and, before this, the only one) vampire movie of Neil Jordan, Interview with the Vampire. <3 #Louis and Claudia for ever *.*
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Già, è una di quelle cose che sono rimaste sulla mia movie list e non sono mai riuscita a vedere. Ma cercherò di procurarmelo in qualche maniera: la critica italiana non è sempre affidabile, soprattutto circa i film stranieri. #l'invidia ti plasma . -
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Neil Jordan sul film all'International Fantastic Film Festival 2013 per parlare del suo ultimo film. A seguire il video dell'intervista! // Neil Jordan's interview about the movie at 31th edition of the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival!
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Intervista firmata Calum Waddell a Saoirse Ronan, giovane protagonista del film, su Byzantium e The Host. // Saoirse Ronan's interview on Byzantium and The Host by Calum Waddell. CITAZIONEFrom her genre breakout in Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones (2009) to her starring role in the acclaimed action outing Hanna (2011), Saoirse Ronan has been one of the most interesting young actresses of recent years. With her upcoming vampire venture Byzantium (released in the UK on 31 May) the Irish-accented (but New York born) thespian celebrates her newfound adulthood with a big bloody bang - playing a 16 year fanged-frightener, mothered by the unlikely visage of ex-Bond girl Gemma Arterton. Talking exclusively to SFX at the Glasgow Film Festival, Ronan shares details about her latest opus and also speaks about The Host, the Stephenie Meyer adaptation which is scheduled for release later in the year.
In Byzantium you portray a 200 year old vampire. Are you a fan of this genre in general?
“Yeah, I am. I always get a thrill out of watching vampire films. My favourite one is actually Interview with the Vampire – mainly because I love the gothic and romantic sensibility of it. So, as you can imagine, I was really excited to be working with Neil Jordan.”
Speaking of romance, you get to have your own love story in Byzantium. For someone who is only 18 was this a challenging aspect of the film to come to grips with?
“As long as you feel comfortable with the person it’s okay, and Caleb Landry Jones, who I take a shine to in Byzantium, was fantastic to work with. The romantic aspect of this film is a big part of the story but it is secondary to the relationship between my character and her mother, Clara. The men who come into their world are shown to jeopardise it a little bit. They can never understand the vampire way of life, you know?”
Right, because you get to slaughter people in this film. Was that fun?
“Yeah, it was great fun. But I only kill old people [laughs]. That is because I want to show mercy. I know that they are going to die soon so I consider it okay to kill them.”
So you are basically the Harold Shipman of vampires?
“Yeah, basically [laughs]. That should probably be a quote in the film. I am called an Angelic vampire. Clara's scenes are more aggressive than mine: there is a lot of anger and hatred in her. She is getting back at all of the men who have done her wrong. Whereas for me it is more spiritual – it is something I just have to do. We approach the killing in different ways.”
Despite being only eight years older than you, Gemma Arterton plays your mother, Clara, in Byzantium. Was she maternal towards you?
“She was actually. She is very motherly by nature and also very mature. She was very maternal with me on the set, which I never expected because she is not that much older than me, but it was really nice. Her character in Byzantium is a prostitute who becomes a vampire. Once you become a vampire, or a ‘succreant’ as we like to call them, you stop aging. So in the present day we are both about 200 years old but we look the same age we did when we became vampires. My character cannot age past 16 years.”
You also have The Host out at the moment. Did you have the chance to talk with Stephenie Meyer about your character?
“Yes, I got to work very closely with Stephenie. She is a friend and she was actually the first person that I met for The Host. She was visiting Ireland and we met up and had a good chat. She told me she wanted me to play Melanie, which was really nice because it is her book and her baby. During the shoot she was on the set almost every day.”
Was that not imposing for the film's director, Andrew Niccol?
“No, Stephenie was great because she wouldn't impose herself too much. She was very respectful. She knew Andrew was the director so she just stood back and observed. She is used to seeing her books being adapted into films by now.” [laughs]
For anyone who has not read the book, can you describe your character in The Host?
“Well, effectively I play two roles. I play a human and I play an alien. Only within the same body. My character, Melanie... Her family was part of this human resistance against these souls who have inhabited the planet Earth to protect it. These souls take over human bodies and put themselves inside us. This is so that they can use our bodies to perfect their new planet. I am on the run and then I get taken over but I don't back down. Usually the humans just back down but I convince the aliens to take me back to my family. It is all very complicated [laughs]. And, as anyone who has read the book will know, there is also a complex love story going on, which the film sticks quite closely too.”
It sounds as if you have had a good time making The Host...
“Yes, absolutely – and it is such an interesting concept. It is based upon the idea of Earth being perfect. That is why these souls want to inhabit it. So we ask if the Earth is really what we, as humans, want from it. Do we appreciate it enough? And when you take the human emotion out of our planet, what do we have left?”
And you are also going to be starring in the directorial debut of Ryan Gosling, is that correct?
“Yeah, it is his directorial debut called How to Catch Monster and I can’t wait for that.”
Is this also a fantasy film? The current plot description indicates that we can expect 'a secret underwater town' in the movie...
“It is not really a fantasy film... In fact I can't say too much about it at the moment. All I can say is that it is the type of film you would hope Ryan Gosling might direct.”
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Intervista, in tedesco, a Neil Jordan sul suo ultimo lavoro cinematografico. // Neil Jordan's interview on Byzantium, in German. CITAZIONENeil Jordan zit al veertig jaar in het vak, maar kan het publiek na al die jaren nog steeds met verstomming slaan. Of hij nu de katholieke toer opgaat (The Borgias, Angel), de complexiteit van het familiale aanhaalt (The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto) of het triumviraat van zonde, genot en dood naar het scherm vertaalt (Interview With The Vampire), we slikken het als zoete koek. Zijn werk is keer op keer weer verrassend. “Ik hou van variatie. Dat houdt het leven spannend.”
Het is bijna twintig jaar geleden dat u met Interview With The Vampire voor het eerst de vampierlegende uitspitte. Wou u altijd al een nieuwe vampierfilm maken?
NEIL JORDAN: Nee, helemaal niet (lacht). Eerlijk gezegd was ik niet geïnteresseerd in het vampiergedeelte. Ik heb niets met vampiers. Ik was wel fan van Nosferatu en Let The Right One In, maar dat wil niet zeggen dat ik alleen maar dat genre wil ontdekken. Het was vooral het script dat me over de streep trok.
Wat vond u dan zo interessant aan het script?
JORDAN: Het feit dat het een mooi verhaal was over twee vrouwen die willen ontsnappen aan hun lot, het feit dat het om twee vrouwen ging die zowel moeder en dochter als twee zussen konden zijn, het feit dat het een soort feministische parabel was, het vechten tegen een broederschap… Het minst aantrekkelijke aan het geweldige script was wel het feit dat het om vampiers ging.
Een tweede film rond de boeken van Anne Rice zat er dus niet in.
JORDAN: Ik had zeker graag een andere film gemaakt met de boeken van Anne Rice als bronmateriaal, maar dat is nooit gebeurd. Het is Hollywood, weet je wel. De film die we toen gemaakt hebben [Interview With The Vampire], was zeer goed en best succesvol. Ik was er heel blij mee. Ik wou geen slechte versie van het origineel maken, want dat is wat er maar al te vaak met sequels gebeurt. Maar er zat wel een leuke franchise in. Ik was er misschien toch beter mee doorgegaan. I would be a wealthy man by now.
Vreesde u niet dat het publiek de vampierfilms ondertussen wat beu zou zijn?
JORDAN: Oh, jawel hoor (lacht). Natuurlijk had ik daar schrik voor. Het is altijd een gok wanneer je een film uitbrengt. En zeker met de zoveelste vampierfilm was het een extra gok. Maar net omdat er zoveel meer aan de gang is dan louter het vampieraspect, denk ik dat de film een verschil kan maken.
U heeft de vampierlegende helemaal heruitgevonden, iets wat u bij Interview With The Vampire niet heeft gedaan.
JORDAN: We wouden de vampierlegende zeker niet te letterlijk overnemen. Ik vind niets zo verschrikkelijk als het moment wanneer de vampiertanden plots tevoorschijn komen, zoals we dat in True Blood bijvoorbeeld zien. Dat is zo cliché, en dat wou ik niet. Daarom zijn we van nul begonnen en hebben we onze eigen legende opgebouwd. We zijn maar aan drie klassieke elementen trouw gebleven. De vampiers zijn nog altijd onsterfelijk, drinken nog steeds bloed en moeten nog altijd uitgenodigd worden vooraleer ze een huis kunnen binnenwandelen. Voor de rest hebben we alles heruitgevonden.
U lijkt wel een neus te hebben voor opkomend jong talent. Hoe was het om met Saoirse Ronan te werken?
JORDAN: Saoirse is fantastisch. She’s just so together. Ik wou dat ik zo zeker van mijn stuk was op mijn leeftijd. But I enjoyed being a mess. Het beste aan Saoirse was de fysieke toestand waarin ze zich bevindt. Saoirse heeft kwaliteiten die je enkel op die leeftijd nog hebt. Op het moment van de opnames had ze zelfs nog nooit een vriendje gehad. Het zijn allemaal aspecten die ze in het personage van Eleanor heeft kunnen steken. Ze is heel erg slim voor haar leeftijd.
Het verschil tussen Saoirse Ronan en Gemma Arterton kon niet groter zijn.
JORDAN: Saoirse was fantastisch, maar Gemma moet zeker niet voor haar onderdoen. Ze is de tegenpool van Saoirse. Gemma is een fysieke natuurkracht. Ze ziet er niet alleen geweldig uit, ze speelt ook nog eens fantastisch. Ik denk dat het enorm interessant is om de twee in dezelfde film te zien. Het enige minpuntje was dat Saoirse Ronan en Gemma Arterton niet meteen op elkaar lijken. De ene heeft blauwe ogen en de ander heeft bruine ogen, om maar een voorbeeld te geven. Maar dat was wel het minst van mijn zorgen. Uiteindelijk lijkt niemand echt honderd procent op zijn ouders. Dat hoop ik toch (lacht).
Was het moeilijk om een geloofwaardige moeder-dochterband te creëren met Gemma Arterton?
JORDAN: Dat ging eigenlijk vanzelf. Omdat we heel veel hebben gerepeteerd toen we moesten wachten op geld om de film te maken, kregen de twee de kans om naar elkaar toe te groeien. We hebben niets moeten forceren. Het leek alsof ze elkaar al jaren kenden.
Van sprookjesfilm Ondine naar feminismeparabel Byzantium. U weet er altijd wel extremen uit te halen.
JORDAN: Het is gek dat iedereen Ondine meteen als een modern sprookje zag. Toen ik de film schreef, was dat helemaal niet de bedoeling. Ondine is uiteindelijk een drugskoerierster, weet je wel (lacht). Dat zijn niet meteen sprookjeselementen. Ik denk dat ik het publiek zelfs wat heb teleurgesteld toen uiteindelijk bleek dat ze helemaal geen zeemeermin was.
Staan er nog enkele projecten in de steigers?
JORDAN: Ik ga eerst The Borgias afwerken. Dat moet dit jaar gebeuren. Ik heb zopas twee scripts geschreven. Het ene is een erotisch geladen spookverhaal, en het andere is een film genaamd ‘Fury’, een Scarface-achtige film die zich afspeelt in Ierland. Fury gaat over een jongen die via een reeks gewelddadige wanpraktijken geld bij elkaar sprokkelt om de bokscarrière van zijn zus te financieren. Alweer staat het familiale aspect centraal. Ik heb zoiets nog nooit gemaakt, maar heb er erg veel zin in.
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Articolo sulla priemiere di Byzantium e foto di Jeremy e Neil all'evento. // Article about Byzantium's premiere and pics of Jeremy and Neil at the event. CITAZIONEDirector Neil Jordan attends film in a wheelchair after argument with bus
Neil Jordan might well be the most underrated filmmaker we’ve got. Even his slightly ropey films (We’re No Angels, Ondine…) are pretty great. And his great films (Company Of Wolves, Mona Lisa, The Crying Game…) are modern classics. So we’re looking forward to Byzantium – his second vampire flick, after getting Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise to gobble off each other in 1994’s Interview With The Vampire.
Poor Neil had to attend the Dublin premiere of Byzantium in a wheelchair after he knackered his knee escaping from an oncoming bus on Dawson Street. But he still looked more dignified than Jeremy Irons who seems to have decided the dress code was ‘drunk Belgian uncle’.
Jeremy recently admitted he should’ve “buttoned my lip” before explaining his views on how gay marriage might lead to sons marrying their dads. He actually thinks gay marriage is “wonderful”. So that’s alright then (providing we forget everything he said before, including the thing he said in 2005 about how attractive children are).
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Neil sull'incidente a Dublino e sul film. // Neil on his accident in Dublin and about the movie. CITAZIONETop film director Neil Jordan has told how he will take legal action against Dublin Bus following a recent incident in Dublin city centre.
The movie-maker was seen lying on the ground after allegedly being clipped by a bus last month.
Now he’s given his account of what happened that day. The director, who was walking with the aid of a crutch following surgery on his knee, said he was badly shaken by the incident.
“I’d had surgery on my knee, a ligament reconstruction, and I was crossing the road on Dawson St with the help of a crutch,” he said.
“Then the lights changed and the bus came towards me, that’s what happened, and I broke my kneecap again. I have to take Dublin Bus to court, it was very shocking. It’s a serious injury, I just hope my knee recovers.”
The film-maker made his comments during an interview to discuss his new movie Byzantium, and was clearly in some discomfort following the incident.
The movie sees Jordan returning to the subject matter that scored him one of his biggest international hits – vampires.
Byzantium stars Saoirse Ronan and British actress Gemma Arterton as two vampires who seek refuge in a rundown English seaside town in a
bid to avoid authorities.
Eleanor (Ronan) is reluctant in her quest for blood, while Clara (Arterton) works as a prostitute to make ends meet. But past secrets threaten to catch up with them.
It’s almost 20 years since he directed Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in Interview With the Vampire, turning a young Kirsten Dunst into a star in the process.
“It was like returning to a beast that had died a long time ago and having to kick it back into life,” he said of capturing the world of the immortals, adapted from a play by Moira Buffini.
“It was a fascinating combination of elements. The relationship between the women, them being on the run from a Brotherhood in an abandoned holiday town.
“The writer was a bit afraid of it being a horror film, but I said: ‘Don’t be scared of those elements – it has to have blood, decapitations, people deserve those elements and all the more so because it was two women.’
“The main characters were women, which made it more interesting. The blood and gore which you associate with horror films and idea that the central character is a 16-year-old girl, I thought that would be great.”
Jordan said he had wanted to work with Ronan – one of the world’s most in-demand young stars at the moment – for a couple of years.
“I’d wanted to work with her, I loved her work from Atonement onwards. I met her and she had a
passion for the role.”
He agrees that vampire movies have become too “cuddly” in recent years with characters such as Twilight’s Edward Cullen.
“When I made Interview With the Vampire I was taking this type of story which has always been lurid and overacted and slightly over the top and faux scary in a way, and taking it seriously.
“If these characters were able to do this, to live on human blood and survive centuries, what would they actually be like? That’s what drew me to that film.
After Interview with the Vampire, it seemed to have gone insane with the Twilight movies, and every fantasy film seems to have a vampire figure.
“If I was to return to that type of thing it was a matter from my point of view of trying to make them live again, to make them believable and spooky and scary.
“In a strange paradoxical kind of way, the way to do that was to make them just like human beings. They could be sitting in a bus next to you and you wouldn’t even know it. It makes them scarier.”
Set in England, the movie was shot in Hastings before Jordan and his crew returned to Ireland. They filmed at the Bray Head Hotel and erected a carnival at the town’s seafront for a key scene.
Other scenes were shot in Dublin and the Beara Peninsula.
With several films including Michael Collins, The Butcher Boy and The Crying Game (for which he won a Best Screenplay Oscar) to his credit, Jordan is one of our most successful-ever movie makers.
Yet he says he struggles to get films made, and says that TV is where the investment currently seems to be.
“Independent films are always running out of money and it seems to be getting more and more difficult. But this was a fantasy so it was easier.”
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Ok, so che non è bene ridere delle disgrazie altrui... ma l'episodio è assurdamente ridicolo, lol. Magari è stato l'effetto delle maledizioni lanciategli da noida chi è rimasto deluso dalla serie sui Borgia? XD #cattiva dentro. -
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CITAZIONEMagari è stato l'effetto delle maledizioni lanciategli da noi da chi è rimasto deluso dalla serie sui Borgia? XD #cattiva dentro
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CITAZIONEBut he still looked more dignified than Jeremy Irons who seems to have decided the dress code was ‘drunk Belgian uncle’.
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Tutte le immagini promozionali e due poster ad altissima qualità! // All Byzantium's stills and posters in high quality!
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Ecco tutte le clip, in altissima qualità, disponibili! // All clips from Byzantium!
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Una rencesione in lingua italiana e, a seguire, nuove immagini! // An Italian review and other new stills! CITAZIONEIl realismo sporco di Neil Jordan
Una favola spaventosa che contiene elementi di un realismo sporco, così il regista irlandese definisce la sua ultima fatica. "Sono stato attratto dal fatto che le protagoniste fossero due donne; dall'idea che altri personaggi raccontassero la loro storia da diversi punti di vista; dall'ambientazione, questa piccola città di mare; si poteva quasi immaginare queste due vampire aggirarsi per la costa inglese con i loro sacchi a pelo, chiedendosi dove avrebbero potuto nasconedersi".
Byzantium vede Gemma Arterton e Saoirse Ronan nei panni di due creature che dipendono dal sangue, legate da un rapporto materno piuttosto tormentato. Un racconto gotico, dove il vampirismo è una formula abbastanza classica (a differenza che in Only Lovers Left Alive di Jim Jarmusch) se si esclude la componente femminista più volte dichiarata dal regista.
Le reazioni della stampa sono state finora positive: parlano di un'iniezione rivitalizzante per il genere, di un film in bilico a metà strada tra Lasciami entrare e i classici Hammer dell'orrore, lodando in particolare l'ambiguità del personaggio della Arterton, divisa tra un erotismo vorace e la sua condizione di genitrice protettiva, e uno stile visivo ammaliante, sottolineato dalla bella fotografia di Sean Bobbitt (Hunger, Shame, Come un tuono, Oldboy).
Intanto Neil Jordan ha affermato che avrebbe voluto realizzare una Biancaneve migliore di quella di Rupert Sanders, che non ha amato molto, e ha annunciato un nuovo film: una ghost story contemporanea ambientata nell'Est Europa. Il regista ha anche confermato che il progetto di un adattamento di The Graveyard Book di Neil Gaiman è un progetto definitivamente fallito.
Scritto da Moira Buffini (Jane Eyre) che ha riadattato la sua pièce A Vampire Story, Byzantium vede nel cast anche Caleb Landry Jones, Jonny Lee Miller, Tom Hollander, Daniel Mays e Sam Riley.
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