Charlotte Gainsbourg had one artist to recommend to the crowd at her Busan International Film Festival masterclass, and it was not a safe pick. I have one artist that I listen to, very controversial artist, but I listen to everything he does, and it’s Kanye West,” Gainsbourg said, to laughter from the audience. If it has to tie back to cinema, she said, film scores are what she listens to most.
Gainsbourg, who is on her first visit to Korea, is in Busan with “Melancholia,” one of four films she made with Lars von Trier. The choice, she explained, came down partly to elimination. Then the conversation turned to von Trier himself.
And in his films, he gives a lot of himself. He’s extremely vulnerable,” Gainsbourg said. They think I’m fragile and soft and kind and respectful.
I like to show the other side of me, and with Lars’s films, I’m able to,” Gainsbourg said. When the interpreter described her as having a filmography of more than 80 titles and began to call her prolific, Gainsbourg cut in. No, not prolific,” she said, laughing.
She was more expansive about her few days in Seoul. The Leeum museum opened its doors to her and her friends on a day it was closed, giving her the run of the place. She also ate what she called “a very special barbecue, Korean barbecue, that was incredible.” “Yesterday was fun, because I got to go to a bar, a restaurant bar with a lot of actors and directors, and it was just so friendly to see people from the industry here just gathering, drinking a lot of alcohol,” she said, drawing more laughs.
Gainsbourg said she would be very open to working here, and that she is fond of Korean cinema and talent, having already met a few members of the local industry. The film in question turned out to be “L’Affaire Marie-Claire,” Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller’s drama in which she plays real-life lawyer and women’s rights campaigner Gisèle Halimi. The film, which centers on the fight for abortion rights, played in Cannes’ Special Screenings section and opens in France on Nov. 4.
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