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English, it's “Embodyment”! This casting took place in Paris. In a he looks like him.
is a fantastic word in English. In way, it was long and complicated
the movie, we played with that, because, as Paulo said, I was Paulo MilHomens: One
with the objects, the spaces, ill at the time, so I did a lot of difficulty I had with Antoine,
the canvases, the brushes, and things remotely. One of them was who is a young actor and gave
the studio. We played with all the casting for Victor Segalen's himself completely to the film and
of this, and this work was a character. Here in Vienna, I was the character, was this: a crucial
presupposition, so to speak, of the receiving videos of actors sent to aspect of the character design
film itself. A presupposition of the me by a casting agent in Paris. She was this exercise in discovery,
process is working with the actor kept sending me the videos until someone who is very attentive to
in this sense. To look for that I found the ones who were most sounds, colours, tastes, smells,
corporeality! likely to be cast, and then Antoine music, words, and language. But
[de Foucauld] came to Vienna, and Antoine, for family reasons, had
How did you discover this I got to know him better; I got to already been to Tahiti and already
young actor who looks so much know how he acted. We worked knew the islands. He remembered
like the real Victor Segalen? with him here in Vienna to see from his early teens that he
Was it casting, obviously? Was if that was the best choice. There had spent two or three years in
it a long process? are other aspects of Antoine's life Tahiti due to his father's military
Hugo Vieira da Silva: The story that relate to Segalen, and service, similar to Segalen's.

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