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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
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The British director William Oldroyd presented his first feature film Lady Macbeth yesterday at the Festival. Adapted from the Russian novella Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov, later turned into an opera by Shostakovich, it has been relocated to Victorian Britain and is Oldroyd’s first feature film, although he has an impressive background in theatre. He stressed how di fferent it was to work in cinema where the visual aspect is so important rather than in theatre where the engine is the language or text, and was grateful for the time they had to rehearse before shooting, as normally the cast in films has much less time together than they do in the theatre to work out what the writer intends.
It was also very important for him to point out that this not Shakespeare’s but Leskov’s Lady Macbeth and that the name was merely shorthand for the protagonists’ character that evoked some powerful images. Although it was a period piece he felt there were strong contemporary parallels to be drawn from it. “It’s a radical drama that happens to be set in the past.”
Florence Pugh, the star of the film, revealed that it was the transformation in her character that attracted her to the script, as an initially naïve, enthusiastic girl turns into a cold-hearted killer.
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