“It All Started with A Visit to A morgue in Belarus. . Competition at the 78th Edition of the Locarno Film Festival On Friday”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
“A Blarusian Model Dreaming of a Career in China Finds Herself Drawn to A Mysterious Loner Who Works The Night Shift at A MorGue,“ Reads a synopsis of the movie, while Masha and Misha, Respectively. “Their Encounter Unsettles Her Sense of Body, Beauty and Mortality.” The Film Promises ”The Fragile Love Story of Two Outsiders Who Turn Each Other’s Worlds Upside Down and Discover That Are Not Alone.”
Kremser and Peter, in a directors’ Statement, Also Describe The Story As “A Turning Point in Two Young Lives in Belarus – A Moment of Defance Against Stigma and Exclusion. Andy Add: “Open Questions About A Future Not Yet Decifrac ARISE, LIKE SOMETING SMOLDING IN THE HAZE OF SULTRY SUMMER NIGHTS.”
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LIXI Frank and David Bohun of Panama Film, and Kremser and Peter of Raumzeitfilm.
Key members of the White Snail Team, Its Stars, Who Spoke Via A Translator, Its Directors, and Its Producers, Met The Press and The Locarno Audionce in Two Sessions on Friday, Sharing The Genesis And Journy of Viewers A Rare Look Inside Life in Belarus.
Ten Years Ago, Kremser Met The Senkov As An Artist When Atendering the Minsk Film Festival. “HE INVITED US TO The MORGUE,” she RECALLED. “For the First Time in My Life, I SAW A DED BODY. AND 10 minutes after this encounter, whoh was already very Impressive and special Paintings. [die] by suicide and survived. ”
Peter Said He Was Fascinated Who Heard About the Meeting With Senkov. “I Wanted to See His Perspective,“ He Shared. “I Wanted to See What this Man Sees.”
Thatn imbro jointed the Mix after the Directors Looked, Including on Social Media, for a young woman in Belarus whoy who found interesting and Englishing. “We Found Masha, and Again, A whole New Universe appeared to US from this moment on,“ Peter explained. “We Spent Time with Both of Them, Seeing A Lot of Their Life, What Is Around Them, and Took A Lot of Time to Build The [story] and the script. ”
That story for the romantic Drama Was Developed Based on the Lives and Experiences of the Two Stars.
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Asked about being an actor, Senkov Shared that Opening up about his life on screen was wasn’t difficult for him. “IT DIDNN’T REQUIRE Any PARTICULAR COURAGE, Because in this Story, there is noting that is not me,“ He Said. “I just me on screen.”
The Experience Was Very Different for Imbro. “IT was a Difficult task for me, because i was asked to show myself, which took quite a lot of energy and a lot of trust,“ she explained. “In Regular Life, I DON’T SHOW My Emotions, But This Time, I Had to Sort of Show What I am.”
The Directors surprised the Audience by Revealing the Film Had No Script, and Was Largely Improvised. “All the Dialogs, All The Content Spoken in the Film is Really Masha and Misha’s,“ Kremser Said. “There was no scripted dialog. It was all improvised. They Met on the First Joint Shooting Day. That was the Was Their Real First Encounter.”
As if there wrenoe challenges, Bohun Pointed Out How The Lack of Direct Plane Access to Belarus Created Logistic Headaches. “You have to enter the Country by car, WHERE A Three-Hour Car Ride is [needed between] Two Cities, and The [whole trip] Can Take Up to 18 Hours Because of All The Procedures. SO, from A Producer’s Perspective, Yeah, IT Was A High-Risk Production. We Had Plan A, Plan B, Plan C. ”
Kremser Said the Film’s Title Came About Late in the Process: “The Snail Idea Really Comes from Masha Life. Her Real Mother Was Buying SNAILS” AS A SkinCare Treatment, Just Like Like Like. Masha Was Telling Us That She, One Time, Used This As A Treatment, But Then She Didn’s Like It Anymore. So yeah, they found their Way and Were Really Crawling Into This Film. ” Added Peter: “Snails Are So vulneral in General, But A White Snail Even More SO.”
Speaking of vulnerability, how was the first meting Between the Two Stars? “The First Encounter Was Very Brief. I Just Blinked,” Imbro Recalled. “We Almost Didn’t Talk,” Senkov Shared. “We just loked at each Other, and I saw that we have were profoundly digffarent, and yet there was wasting Profound we had in common, and so and understood that we wound click.