Paul Schrader who is in New Delhi for the ongoing 10th Osian’s film festival, says his next directorial venture Adam Resurrected will be an intense dark drama.
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Acclaimed Hollywood director and script writer Paul Schrader who is in New Delhi for the ongoing 10th Osian’s film festival, says his next directorial venture Adam Resurrected will be an intense dark drama.
Schrader’s film is an adaptation from Yoram Kaniuk’s novel of the same name that was published in 1968. The film revolves around an ex-circus performer who, after World War II, becomes the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors.
“It’s a story of a man who was once a dog, meets a dog, who once was a boy. Sounds confusing doesn’t it?” says Schrader, adding “It is set in a mental hospital post the holocaust. The film is about a boy named Adam who survives the trauma by posing as a dog in it. Fifteen years later he meets a 12-year-old boy who is brought to the centre who also thinks himself as a dog. The film about this revelation and Adam’s coming to terms with his mirror image.”
The plot is confusing, no? “It is, when I’m telling you but when you see it, you will understand,” he says. Adam Resurrected has Jeff Goldblum and Willem Defoe in the lead.
Schrader has been a script writer to Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese. He has written Martin’s four films like Bringing Out the Dead, The Last Temptation of Christ, Raging Bull and Taxi Driver. Martin won the Oscars for Best Direction for the gangster film The Departed (2007) after making 45 films in a career spanning 48 years.
How does Martin’s buddy feel about his friend winning the Oscar?
“I personally don’t take the Oscars too seriously. It is definitely useful for a person’s career but I just can’t digest that fact that some people can judge your film and give an award to it. All films are work of art but I’m sure that Marty must have loved winning it. He is a very hard working man who has made some really good films,” Schrader says.
But has Schrader seen any Bollywood movies lately?
“Oh yes, lots of them. It is very difficult not to watch them. They are so full of glamour and song-and-dance. But what I have seen, I have been disappointed. Most of it is awful to tell you the harsh truth,” he says.
Is there any film you have liked?
“I liked Bride and Prejudice. It has a very nice Indian flavour to it but you will hardly call it a Bollywood film, right?” he ends.
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