Two days before Norway premiere of the new movie “Everything Will Be Fine” knows neither the director Wim Wenders or writer Bjorn Olaf Johannessen about everything really goes well in the end.
– I think no one has ever made a movie like this. It began with a screenplay that was unlike anything I have read, and now the movie hopefully unlike anything you’ve ever seen, says director Wim Wenders said.
In his latest film “Everything Will Be Fine “the audience meets the writer Tomas (James Franco) who is searching for content for his next book, while trying to maintain the relationship with girlfriend Sarah (Rachel McAdams). After an argument with his girlfriend becomes the author involved in a car accident where a young boy dies, which has major consequences for himself and everyone around him.
The illustrator Kate (Charlotte Gainsbourg) loses a son and sinking into an immersive grief, while the remaining brother Christopher (Robert Naylor) grows up with a heavy luggage.
Healing
– It all began with the opening scene. I sat at his desk and wrote about an accident that occurred. The idea that there was another child, one who really got hit, came to me while I was writing, says the Norwegian writer Bjorn Olaf Johannessen said.
Wenders received Johannessen screenplay personally five years ago, which was unusual for the renowned German film director who has been in business since the 1970s. Previously, he had been in contact with Johannessen during a writing contest in 2006, and 70-year-old was so impressed that he asked him to send it directly if Johannessen would write something more.
– The story was unique, says the director.
Many films about serious incidents, but few about the healing process. This film makes it elegant, even though the story stretches over a long time. Meanwhile, such accidents can happen to anyone worldwide. Suddenly it’s your life that fails. And how do you do that? elaborates Wenders.
Embracing 3D
When the protagonist of the film comes after a half-hearted suicide attempt he teams up with Sara, who also wants children Tomas can not give her. Regularly hopping action in time. Mother Kate sees her son she has left, grow up, and Tomas gets along with Ann (Marie-Josée Croze) and will be responsible for her stepdaughter Mina (Julia Sarah Stone). The whole film is made in 3D, which both director and scriptwriter is agreed that the winner of.
– 3D was not used as an effect. It was used as a form to see and to be present. The audience is much more included and it is a fact that creates a very different proximity with 3D than with flat film, said Wenders.
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He believes 3D has been abused as tools to blow up the action scenes and fantasy movies.
– We want this beautiful language will finally be used for something extraordinary,
– We want this beautiful language will finally be used for something extraordinary,
he says.
Human mantra
The film, which has Norway premiere November 20 , is first and foremost about human healing, but Wenders believes it also embraces life.
– It is very important that the film only shows everyday scenes and not about extraordinary events. I think everyday life can be extremely exciting and emotional, he points out.
Johannessen, who also wrote the script for NRK’s drama “struggle for existence” with among others Erlend Loe, believes “Everything Will Be Fine” also deals with how to treat a who accidentally killed a child.
– What kind of freedom we give to a person who could do such a thing? What happens to a person who treats himself as guilty for a long time? Is he as guilty in the end? asks the writer.
Despite the jokes about the film’s title was a great help when your camera equipment stopped working in minus 40 degrees, neither the director or screenwriter sure whether everything really goes well in the end .
– We perched ourselves to the mantra that everything will go well. There is something very human about it, anything we can say in absurd situations, says Johannessen.
– It also tells that there is not time that heals all wounds, one must make an effort yourself, says Wenders.
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