![]() There, she meets a cadre of other outcasts, along with a sympathetic nurse (Laurent) who starts to believe that Eugenie’s visions and voices are not the product of mental illness. She had already signed on to write and direct “The Mad Women’s Ball” in January 2020, but without “The Nightingale” blockading her calendar and with France emerging from its second lockdown at the end of November, she jumped at the chance to make the film sooner, rather than later.īased on Victoria Mas’ bestselling novel of the same name, the 19th-century-set film follows the aristocratic Eugenie (Lou de Laâge, who previously starred in Laurent’s critically acclaimed “Breathe”), who is packed off to a Paris asylum after she reveals to her family that she hears ghostly voices. With her schedule suddenly open, Laurent decided to do what felt natural: direct another film. ![]() I was ready to shoot, and then we couldn’t. I was super happy about making that movie and to make everything work. “It’s extremely frustrating, as you can imagine, for me to just survive through everything. “I’m pretty sure when you agree on everything in prep, then you’re pretty free on set, and then they just let you be who you are because you spent so many hours to just make sure everybody is okay with your ideas,” Laurent said. She liked the experience, and the demands of studio filmmaking actually seemed to appeal to her organized nature. The prep process was a major change for Laurent, who was used to taking something of a run-and-gun approach to her previous films - “When you’re a director in France, there is no difference, prep or shooting is kind of the same,” she said with a laugh - and only adds to her enthusiasm to get back into the studio saddle. How are we going to make it possible?’ With the studio, it’s another level of how you’re going to hit all those boxes and how you’re going to make everything work, how you’re going to save your point of view and how you’re going to make something popular, and how you’re going to respect a historical movie, but also make it more Hollywood.” I’m obsessed with, ‘Okay, this is impossible. “I don’t know if it’s weird, but I hate to do that in real life. While Laurent’s studio debut has been, at best, simply delayed until next year, Laurent has already learned a lot from the experience. “I just realized that I love my job as a director, because I love finding solutions to problems,” she said. How to Make a Modern Period Piece for $5 Million: Behind the Scenes of ‘BlackBerry’
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