social tensions on stage. and how would you survive if you were trapped in a forest behind an invisible wall favorite leavitt's with another great book writing my report makes us wonder just how little american film director terrence malick former winner of the palme d'or is back at the cannes film festival with his latest movie a hidden life it's based on the true story of an austrian conscientious objector in the 2nd world war who refuses to take the oath of allegiance to hitler as an army conscript and suffers the consequences here he is only on in the movie returning home to his family from military training.

and the. and joining me now from it in cannes is all mine scott ross from scott some lovely acting there i thought some hot warming seen in the movie you've seen the whole movie did you is it good. yeah

no i think it's really spectacular i mean if you know talent terrence malick films like days of heaven or the tree of life you know he likes take on really big subjects you know more reality faith the meaning of life itself and this is the case here as well with an incredible performance central performance by stealing director i was the as fun this conscience objector who would rather martyr himself then fight for fight for the nazis very very powerful movie it is quite long it's 3 hours long and as very slow as malice films tend to get you tend to be but it really really works on you in the end packs i know incredible emotional wall up now malik though recent movies by him haven't done so well and he's been accused of being a bit self-indulgent is this is this now a return to full. definitely definitely it's last 3

films were incredibly self-indulgent as you said i'd even say they're bordering on self-parody but but this film really sees him go back to the the kind of movies he was making back in 2011 with the tree of life which similarly took on issues of of morality of faith and did it did it beautifully that won the palme d'or here in 2011 and this film i think is just as good so maybe it will repeat the feat this year. oh wow about be interesting if you want to go now what else has course your eye this year at cat. yeah i like to recommend a great film but i just saw today it's for the 1st time american director michael angelo. the film is called the cline and it's the story of a friendship of 2 guys told through 6 key events in their lives a very simple story but beautifully told very sweet very touching and also laugh

out loud funny it's by far the funniest movie i've seen here in cannes called the climb definitely mike at the camera used to be ok not a lot of kalman often that can be said that finally scott the new town until you know move there will will premium suit huge anticipation not only the cost of course. the title it treats rewards upon a time in hollywood sounds interesting i guess you're looking forward to seeing the . terence you know film is the hottest ticket in town by far yet it's called once thought upon a time in hollywood we don't know a lot about the movie except that it's set in hollywood in the 19 $160.00 s. sort of around the time of the of the manson murders stars brad pitt they are the capital markets and it's going to premier 25 years to the day here in cannes pulp fiction premier and of course it launched the question. as if they don't know a lot about the movie but apparently always knows how to surprise us and i really

can't wait yeah i think brad pitt seems to be the stunt double of of live in order to capture it sounds wonderful i know i know you'll be back talking to us about that scott ross perot for now thanks very much. and we stay in fronts for our next report stress book is sometimes called the heart of europe as it's the official seat of the european parliament and leading up to elections this weekend we're visiting artists in various e.u. countries to see what they think about current issues and strands voice national theatre reflecting the armrest on the streets against emanuel micros reform policies. protests against the president's reforms have been raging on the streets of france's big cities for months now. the neglected province against the rich capital's. the underprivileged against the elites.

day an actor and the director of straw sports and national theatre decided to explore the social tensions on stage. in france there are no children of factory workers or of agricultural workers among the elite there's a kind of sticking together and i think there's a form of blindness but it's also indicative of a more general problem in our western democracies. and is all of society really represented by elites. this is a rehearsal for the edouard louis play who killed my father. it's a polemical work against france's social policies to sit. with your. leaders in the dock workers as characters on stage. the theatre

wants to give all sectors of society of voice and a stage and this approach is also that of the theatres drama school. fronts is very much behind the theater scene is desperately want this does not societal so with it best is also. not today is working to change the ensemble so that it reflects french society better with all its ethnic groups and all its social differences if positive discrimination is needed to recruit young people from less educated families so be it he thinks that otherwise everything will stay the same. strong sports national theatre is the only one to enjoy special national theatre status outside of paris many small cities don't have any theatres at all centralisation is one of france's major problems and there was a huge gap between the center and the periphery. of this imbalance is also

reflected within europe itself. this is the subject of far crichton's play i am europe which started last no day staged at the beginning of the year. not. that. we. saw not only france is in crisis what is no days vish. of europe. it's a place where people come together because they have something to say to each other not just because they want to trade things i cannot make arguments or not enough it's not enough to say that france alone wouldn't be able to negotiate free trade agreements that's a bad argument i think people need to have something to dream about which.

in our continuing series 100 must reads featuring famous german language books that are translated into english today's novel is called the wool by the austrian. school for there's a cataclysmic event at the beginning of the novel which means the main protagonist whose name we never found find out is alone in the world behind a kind of wall anyway here's david levitz to explain more. what if my arms were right and you could actually get trapped behind an invisible wall and what if you were trapped behind an invisible wall alone in the forest and you were possibly the only person left on the planet.

austrian author 1000000 households or wrote about this mysterious invisible barrier almost half a century before stephen king got the idea. the main character in her book the wall writes a journal about survival in this solitary confinement not because she likes to write or has anyone to write for she does it to preserve her humanity. not that i'm afraid of becoming an animal that wouldn't be too bad but a human being can never become just an animal he plunges beyond into the abyss i don't want this to happen to me it's out of that fear that i'm writing my report once i've reached the end i will hide it well and forget about it i don't want this strange thing i might turn into to find it one day. to survive physically she learns to kill animals to survive emotionally she learns to love other animals a cat a cow and a dog as her own children. in the film version actress martina gay dick plays the

nameless protagonist the movie was austria's entry for the oscars whether it's the thelma or the book the wall makes us wonder just how little it would take to turn us humans and to beasts. these traps but they'd be back next week that's it for this edition of alts and culture i leave you with pictures from the cannes film festival and the next time you see him on my mascot roxboro will be reporting on quentin tarantino's new movie once upon a time in hollywood but here is the glitz and glamour of the red carpet a life in that.

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