Jean-Claude Brisseau

Film

“I had known for a while that I had to do something that would be totally different. Recently, I started watching a series of films in 3D. That made me want to do a remake of Des jeunes femmes disparaissent, a film that I shot forty years ago, first in 8mm and then in Super 8. It was a thriller, in black and white, and it gave Eric Rohmer and Maurice Pialat the fright of their lives. I think it’s interesting to redo it in 3D because I have noted that this technology is rarely used for dramatic purposes, except in the Hitchcock film Dial M for Murder. That was when I realised that viewers attentively observed all the details in 3D films that have a dramatic function. What particularly interests me is the use of 3D in the dramatisation of eroticism, or even in elements bordering on the poetic. I also want to use 3D to dramatise empty space: for example, a young woman is in danger, she is on her own in an apartment where people who mean her harm are also lurking. You would expect spectators to be afraid for her, and this is where 3D can add something that will encourage them to look all around the set. For me, 3D is experimental, and that is what interests me.” Jean-Claude Brisseau

Jean-Claude Brisseau