Delphine Lehericey’s “Beyond the Horizon” may be playing the New Directors section at San Sebastian, but the young director is really anything but, having spent the last decade working in live thea…
, ahead of the film’s San Sebastian premiere, about the shift to big screen fiction, taking ownership of an already-popular story and casting a first-time child actor in a lead role.
I started making films quite late. It’s been a bit more than 10 years so I’m still a young director! Before that I had time to experiment and be passionate about acting and directing too. Theater captures the involuntary moments that come from the actors, from life itself. Sometimes I was frustrated that moments of pure magic were ephemeral. That’s what first attracted me to documentary, telling a story by capturing moments of life.
When I read the first version of Joanne Giger’s screenplay and then Roland Buti’s novel, I felt the climate of the film. Not only the heat but also the color, the material, the weight that permeates the time and the agricultural landscape. I wanted to recreate that impression, that “nostalgia.” We looked for it with Christophe Beaucarne, the director of photography, choosing to shoot in 35mm for complexions but also for true white and the brutality of the sun.
Gus’ casting was a challenge, but we had to allow ourselves to fall in love! He had to be solid for the shoot, desire to play, be willing to start over again and again, trust the team, get along with the professional actors who would justifiably impress him at first. I made sure to build a real family. I work like that with all the actors I choose. I write to them and try to build a real bond with them and between them.
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