The French director lived one of the best projections of his life by going to see this ultra spectacular Indian action film entitled “RRR”.
Sometimes it is difficult to identify in which country cinema knows its golden age at a moment T. But for the cinephage director Christophe Gans, the country which currently offers the most interesting films of the moment, and it is Indian cinema. One of the best representatives of what he calls “the New Wave” is for him the film RRR, which had been talked about in 2022.
“It was one of the biggest recent shocks I had while watching a film”
Directed by SS Rajamouli, RRR takes place during the British colonization of India, and opposes a formidable soldier and the protector of a threatened tribe. And for Gans, this film was one of the best sessions of his life, as he recently testified to Images forum In Paris:
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“It was one of the greatest recent shocks I had while watching a film. Because not only is it a film that looks like any other, anything that we know in the West, but it perpetuates the tradition of the cinema of Hong Kong in its own way.”
“The strength of [RRR]is largely due to this heritage which has reinstalled in a great way. Because RRR (…) This is the perfect cultural assimilation of a portion of the history of cinema By a new genre, a new cinematography, and what we see on the screen is absolutely staggering. (…) It is a wonderful staging film, an amazing three -hour film, epic, delusional, you have to see it to believe it. The action scenes in RRR are literally unforgettable, and it clearly shows that expertise, today it is on the side of India. “
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“(…) JI had the opportunity to do a big interview with Rajamouli. Because I instantly asked to see him and speak to him. I first saw all his films, then I called him, we saw each other and Rajamouli confirmed to me (…) that Bruce Lee was his God and that the Cinema of Hong Kong was the Alpha and the Omega of his idea of cinema. He confirmed with his words to me what I had recognized through his film. “
“A cinema that does not need the rest of the world”
“But it's not just [RRR]there are dozens of others “he added in another interview with the chain Hunger for sessions. “And it is a cinema which, like the cinema of Hong Kong, does not need the rest of the world. Some Indian films-at least, those who walk best-manage to make 50 million spectators in a week. (…) They are self-sufficient and they have created something that owes nothing to Western cinema, but a lot to the Hong Kong cinema.”
“They managed to absorb it by starting with badly copying it, then quickly by assimilating it and producing their own conception of action. They reformatted action cinema through the legends of the Mahabharata. It quickly turns to the mythological film, so I would say that Indian cinema is perhaps the form closest to what the Italian peplum was in a certain time.”
