Raw
Where the DNA of Raw travels
Films that shaped it
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I think for me it’s always Polanski’s Repulsion, and Lynch’s Eraserhead. For me, they are the two perfect movies about characters going mad in their own heads.
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Some of the movies that influenced me are David Lynch’s, especially ‘Lost Highway’ or ‘Mulholland Drive’ for their ability to bring something completely out of the world and make it very real, and just completely throw you off track and create this sort of dreamlike reality.
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When I saw The Piano Teacher, I thought: 'That's it, that's what I want to do'. It taught me how to put the audience in a state of discomfort without resorting to gratuitous violence, but through psychology. That was a huge lesson.
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I love Trouble Every Day by Claire Denis, it’s a brilliant film. I love how she directs the flesh. It’s almost like a documentary on flesh, it’s not beautiful. In films, when you see blood and it’s beautiful, it becomes aesthetic, it is less horrible. For me, what is horrible is when the flesh is filmed for what it is. And Claire Denis does that brilliantly. She creates desire through flesh, through blood. That’s something that I think is brilliant and that I took from her, definitely.
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He’s a huge influence, especially the early films... I really like Benny’s Video.
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And also the Korean cinema wave, especially Park Chan-wook's vengeance trilogy, was very important to me. Sympathy For Mr Vengeance in particular showed me that you could go to the very end of your concept, no matter how extreme, and make it artful. This really liberated me in my own approach to Raw.
