Agrément et catastrophe

« Van Sant agrees and demurs at the same time. « Not consciously. Those films were about catastrophes, and this one is more about ordinary death. It's more intimate. The others were huge catastrophes, and all originated as news items: Gerry came from a news story about two guys who got lost in the desert and one killed the other, violently. Did he think his friend was a demon; was he overcome by dehydration? The others were front-page news stories, major cover-of-Time-magazine-size stories, massive public events. Restless is more scripted, more intimate and performance-based, too. » »