To meet the Franco-Serb filmmaker is the assurance of an up-to-date interview, the questions of international geopolitics and the misdeeds of capitalist globalization. Emir Kusturica, author of a collection of short stories published on January 7, “Stranger in the marriage,” is never stingy with bright digressions.
Emir Kusturica usually uses his artistic fiber in music and cinema: the guitarist of the No Smoking Orchestra is also the winner of two gold awards for When father was away on business and Underground. The Franco-Serb filmmaker had already tried literature in an autobiography, “Where am I in this story? ”. He is now attempting a foray into fiction with “Stranger in Marriage,” a collection of six short stories about family, war, and the absurdity of everyday life in Yugoslavia in the 1970s. A little bit uneven, the truculence of Kusturica, yet very cinematographic, hardly provoke the same emotions as on the screen. Still, if he does not quite succeed in writing, he remains a singular voice essential to the mind formatting.
ENTRETIEN RÉALISÉ PAR VADIM KAMENKA ET MICHAËL MÉLINARD DE l'HUMANITE DIMANCHE - traduction par Matthieu Dhennin
Source : humanite.fr