“At the beginning of a scene, they feel one way about the relationship, and then in the middle of the scene, they feel a totally different way about the relationship, and then at the end of the scene they’re like, ‘Oh, wait, maybe I am rooting for it again.’” “That was the most fun part of directing,” she said. That meant trusting the audience to see things through Jem’s eyes. “Bringing the audience on this journey where they’re really experiencing everything that she’s experiencing in real time, I think that is how you accomplish that.” “It was about grounding the film in Jem’s experience 100 percent, so that the audience experiences the relationship, how she experiences it, and creating something that is vivid and intoxicating and intimate and immediate,” Parmet said.
Parmet found her solution by approaching the story through Jem’s perspective.
It extended to every part of the filmmaking process.” “We’re trying to show these two characters fall into this romance and get invested in these characters, while at the same time highlighting how it’s problematic. “I was asking myself that as I was writing and as I was directing every single day, ‘How do we get this delicate dance down right?,’” Parmet said. Parmet said navigating that was “the entire focus” of her filmmaking process. Laurel Parmet on the set of “The Starling Girl” “Laurel wanted to steer clear of both of those stereotypes and create something - yeah, I’m going to say the word again - something with more nuance.” “Audiences are familiar with those stereotypes where you either have the young girl who falls in love with an older man, and she’s a victim of abuse and she’s not portrayed to wield any sort of agency, and then you have the other end of the spectrum where the creator is just completely eroticizing that power dynamic, like ‘Lolita,’” Scanlen said. Scanlen, who also joined us on Zoom, hopes audiences are willing to look past tropes to appreciate the film’s own deeply considered take. It’s like, how do you convey the nuance that a two-hour film conveys?”
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That was something difficult for us, even when we were cutting the trailer and talking about how to market the film. It’s all about brevity and it’s all about how to talk about the film in so many words and in sound bites. But this is what’s so difficult about advertising the film and then social media and Twitter, where there’s really just no room for nuance. “We definitely want to be having those conversations, and that’s part of the point of the film. “That’s part of what I think is par for the course when you’re telling a story that is so nuanced,” Parmet said during a recent interview with IndieWire. The film is built on that gray area and works for viewers willing to make space for it. Jem does believe, for a time, that she’s an equal in their relationship.
It was a clicky header, but it also captured the film’s tension. When the film premiered at Sundance 2023, IndieWire’s own (very positive) review from our David Ehrlich generated social media rancor for a headline that called Pullman’s character “sexy” and said that Scanlen’s character “sins with” him. It’s a tricky story that risks becoming incendiary in the current culture. Christopher Nolan Recalls Al Pacino Pushing Back on His Set Notes During ‘Insomnia’ Shoot
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