The actor and director – whose fourth film has just won the top prize at San Sebastián – reveals how her own memories furnished the 'light and dark' of her new drama
News reports about the Uars satellite falling to Earth came just a few days too late for the San Sebastián film festival world premiere of Julie Delpy's fourth directing project. That was a shame – it'd have been quite the PR stunt for Le Skylab, her family comedy set around the falling of the titular space station in 1979, which won the special jury prize at the Spanish event on Sunday. The preoccupation with where it might land caused something of a media circus at the time – a San Francisco newspaper offered $10,000 for the first piece of the wreckage to be delivered to its offices – and it clearly played on the mind of the then 10-year-old Delpy.
"A lot of the...
News reports about the Uars satellite falling to Earth came just a few days too late for the San Sebastián film festival world premiere of Julie Delpy's fourth directing project. That was a shame – it'd have been quite the PR stunt for Le Skylab, her family comedy set around the falling of the titular space station in 1979, which won the special jury prize at the Spanish event on Sunday. The preoccupation with where it might land caused something of a media circus at the time – a San Francisco newspaper offered $10,000 for the first piece of the wreckage to be delivered to its offices – and it clearly played on the mind of the then 10-year-old Delpy.
"A lot of the...
- 9/27/2011
- by Joe Utichi
- The Guardian - Film News
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