hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with accomplished director Jim Donovan
about his latest film tosses off its
three parallel stories you’ve got two
couples at the opposite spectrums of
life one they’re in their mid-30s the
guys like a successful ad agency guy
lots of money the girl is like a model
wannabe actress she becomes unexpectedly
pregnant so it kind of throws a
curveball in their relationships
published by me not my pools and far
apart of the classic within like a yeah
but the opposite end you’ve got another
couple who were living on the streets of
Montreal squeegee kids they’re living in
a squat they don’t have any money they
have a kind of a strange relationship
he’s a bit aggressive and she’s freshly
in too much all she becomes unexpectedly
pregnant so that’s kind of the link
between the two it’s good news is I got
it on him then there’s a third story
about this guy who comes to montreal
from calgary he’s seeking revenge he
wants to find the killer of his only
daughter and he wants to kill him
there’s secret relationships between the
characters that the audience discovers
along the way and these stories kind of
converge on a story sense and also on
automatic level you know life death
destiny that kind of thing how had your
work evolved from your first film pure
to this film pure was really an intense
experience you know it was like the end
of the millennium the idea for the film
came and all this euphoria and it was
all about yes it’s very loose oh my god
you’re like a crazy I mean pure was a
very funky movie and I did it with a
good friend of mine Eugene Garcia who
wrote the script and another good friend
Marcel’s you who produced it and I mean
I think it was a lot lighter for me
after that since I had been involved
creatively with pure more intensely than
in television I sort of wanted to do
something that I had more sort of my
hand in creating so the evolution is
actually writing it from scratch
creating characters finding inspiration
directly inside yourself twice ozone is
in French what made you choose to work
in that language well actually twice as
i was in French English and Italian
so it switches I’m bilingual but my
mother tongue is French and I live in
montreal and I had never really worked
here in French except for you know the
odd commercial music videos I was going
back to some part of me some of my roots
I also enjoyed the fact that in certain
scenes it switches between French and
English and that’s very that’s very much
about Montreal and about here we are you
from natwest how twist goodbye ah heck
of AI cash fun how do your personal
experiences affect your work I get the
feeling that most most of the good work
in cinema happens when you do have a
personal connection to the material when
I started writing tuas says oh I was a
new father somehow it changes our life
completely you know and the character
for Decker who’s seeking revenge comes
from I was shooting a documentary in
England and i met this gentleman who had
lost his son in an air crash and you
could tell that it had damaged his life
forever you couldn’t ask him a question
about that and then expect to interrupt
him he would go on for 40 minutes
without stopping it was a very difficult
interview for me and wound up haunting
me for a while I just had to come out
because it was about a father who’d lost
his son you know smile at me last dying
moments we’re gonna be laughing you
lucky son of a bitch I think it made me
gravitate towards the material into our
says oh there’s all these things going
on in your mind you know that are new
thank you very much you’re welcome
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with accomplished director Jim Donovan
about his latest film tosses off its
three parallel stories you’ve got two
couples at the opposite spectrums of
life one they’re in their mid-30s the
guys like a successful ad agency guy
lots of money the girl is like a model
wannabe actress she becomes unexpectedly
pregnant so it kind of throws a
curveball in their relationships
published by me not my pools and far
apart of the classic within like a yeah
but the opposite end you’ve got another
couple who were living on the streets of
Montreal squeegee kids they’re living in
a squat they don’t have any money they
have a kind of a strange relationship
he’s a bit aggressive and she’s freshly
in too much all she becomes unexpectedly
pregnant so that’s kind of the link
between the two it’s good news is I got
it on him then there’s a third story
about this guy who comes to montreal
from calgary he’s seeking revenge he
wants to find the killer of his only
daughter and he wants to kill him
there’s secret relationships between the
characters that the audience discovers
along the way and these stories kind of
converge on a story sense and also on
automatic level you know life death
destiny that kind of thing how had your
work evolved from your first film pure
to this film pure was really an intense
experience you know it was like the end
of the millennium the idea for the film
came and all this euphoria and it was
all about yes it’s very loose oh my god
you’re like a crazy I mean pure was a
very funky movie and I did it with a
good friend of mine Eugene Garcia who
wrote the script and another good friend
Marcel’s you who produced it and I mean
I think it was a lot lighter for me
after that since I had been involved
creatively with pure more intensely than
in television I sort of wanted to do
something that I had more sort of my
hand in creating so the evolution is
actually writing it from scratch
creating characters finding inspiration
directly inside yourself twice ozone is
in French what made you choose to work
in that language well actually twice as
i was in French English and Italian
so it switches I’m bilingual but my
mother tongue is French and I live in
montreal and I had never really worked
here in French except for you know the
odd commercial music videos I was going
back to some part of me some of my roots
I also enjoyed the fact that in certain
scenes it switches between French and
English and that’s very that’s very much
about Montreal and about here we are you
from natwest how twist goodbye ah heck
of AI cash fun how do your personal
experiences affect your work I get the
feeling that most most of the good work
in cinema happens when you do have a
personal connection to the material when
I started writing tuas says oh I was a
new father somehow it changes our life
completely you know and the character
for Decker who’s seeking revenge comes
from I was shooting a documentary in
England and i met this gentleman who had
lost his son in an air crash and you
could tell that it had damaged his life
forever you couldn’t ask him a question
about that and then expect to interrupt
him he would go on for 40 minutes
without stopping it was a very difficult
interview for me and wound up haunting
me for a while I just had to come out
because it was about a father who’d lost
his son you know smile at me last dying
moments we’re gonna be laughing you
lucky son of a bitch I think it made me
gravitate towards the material into our
says oh there’s all these things going
on in your mind you know that are new
thank you very much you’re welcome
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