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much as possible—because it's notoriety were not the same because in the movie, this aspect
a period film, from 1903. So the as Paul Gauguin's. Unlike the was often in the writing of the
effort made in the film was not to former, Gauguin chose to script. In fact, there was a version
embellish... die far from France, helping of the script in which Segalen's
to build and consolidate the death was included! The movie
Hugo Vieira da Silva: If it's a myth surrounding his life and started with his death. There's
shed, it's a shed! career and to give prominence a big debate about his death—
to his artistic work. After whether it was a suicide or not!
Paulo MilHomens: and people leaving Tahiti, Ségolène There are indications that it might
are people too! So in the choice of travelled to the Orient, where have been a suicide, but it's not
actors and extras, they are people. she followed in Rimbaud's absolutely clear! Towards the
Our Joca, who is extraordinary footsteps and visited various end of his life, he was suffering
in the movie, is a farmer! It's his Asian destinations. She then from depression, and he set up a
profession. And he brought that returned to France, where she staging in the forest: he opened
to the movie too! He brought his died in 1919 and will not go Shakespeare's Hamlet, composed
life— his reality! And that was down in history. Do you agree a total “picture,” and that's where
crucial during the shoot. with the parallels between the he died! Or does he kill himself?
protagonists' fates? That's the question! On the other
Victor Segalen's fate, his Hugo Vieira da Silva: I don't hand, Paul Gauguin somehow
immortalization, and his agree! I think it's very curious, ends up dying on the island. On

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