Interviews

Victor Polster – Lukas Dhont’s Girl | 2018 Cannes Film Festival

Published on June 25, 2018

Lara is an adolescent committed to becoming a professional ballerina and with the support of her father, she sees no limits to her pursuing this dream and not unlike her peers — she must wrestle with the limitations of her body. In his acting and award winning debut (landing a Special Un Certain Regard Best Actor Jury Prize), Victor Polster takes on the lead in Lukas Dhont’s Girl with a determined bullishness and convincingly details in swift movements and alone time the triptych of self-image issues packaged in the violence of puberty and being born as a boy. Unveiled at Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard section and multiple winner (including the Camera d’Or) for more than just his striking androgynous quality and incredible physical performance, I had the chance to sit with Polster in Cannes to ask about how he viewed the character, the working method utilized with Dhont, and how he prepared himself for the role.

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Amir Ganjavie

Amir Ganjavie, a Ph.D. in communication and culture, is a Toronto-based writer, cultural citric, festival director, community activist and filmmaker. Fascinated by the issue of alternative and utopian space in modern urban settings and cinema, Amir has published several articles on utopia and two books, one on utopia (Le rÃ´le de la pensÃ©e utopique dans lâamÃ©nagement des villes de demain) and the other on walkable neighbourhoods (Pour une ville qui marche). He has recently co-edited two special volumes on Iranian cinema for film International and Asian Cinema and edited a Humanities of the Other: An essay collection on the Dardanne Brothers (in Persian). Aside from academia, he writes for MovieMaker, Filmint, Mubi, Senses of Cinema, Offscreen and Brightlight. Amir is very active in the community. He serves as the CEO of CineIran Festival and Phoenix Cultural Centre of Toronto. He is also the founding member of NaMaNa Cinema. He has recently directed/produced a long feature film in Canada, named Pendulum. His top 2 theatrical release for 2017: IldikÃ³ Enyedi's On Body and Soul and Michel Hazanavicius's Redoubtable.