In “Excess Will Save Us” – named this week joint winner of Rotterdam Film Festival’s Special Jury Award – Morgane Dziurla-Petit returns to Villereau, a village in the north of France wh…
In “Excess Will Save Us” – named this week joint winner of Rotterdam Film Festival’s Special Jury Award –returns to Villereau, a village in the north of France where nothing ever happens. Or, according to some of the locals, everything does – from freak accidents to terrorist scares and the curious case of disappearing pigeons.
“This short really brought us together. For my father, it was also his way out. Despite his age, he would feel like a teenager sometimes, just stuck in this place. Thanks to the film, he understood there was hope for him too, in a way. It made him happy,” she says. But as her own circumstances changed over the years, she created an alter ego to represent her old self, played by Kim Truong.
“Yesterday I called my grandfather and he went: ‘Come back, I am ready for our next film!,’ ” she laughs, admitting that working with your own family can be trying at times.
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