Barry Jenkins Instagram – @ava’s ORIGIN and Jonathan Glazer’s ZONE OF INTEREST. Watched these two as a double-header — first viewing of ORIGIN, third of ZONE OF INTEREST (I was in Telluride but not Venice).
A very productive pairing; both works of adaptation by sincere artists with earnest aims. Different yet equally inspired approaches; I don’t have any experience with the Martin Amis source material for ZONE but have read Ms. Wilkerson’s Caste. The film you see from reading that work is NOT the film Ava and her collaborators give us (gloriously so, both achieve their own distinct greatness within their respective mediums). I watched Jonathan speak about his approach to ZONE and found confirmation of the thoughtfulness abundant in the film’s craft and a clear indication of the purposeful journey to transmute literature into CINEMA.
I found both films incredibly moving and, for me, fittingly paired. My favorite works in these two filmmakers’ filmographies.
Humbling, inspiring stuff. | Posted on 06/Jan/2024 06:12:31
