Following its debut at Cannes this summer, Jacques Audiard’s latest film “Paris, 13th District ” screened at the Zurich Film Festival this week.
“I’ve shot a lot in Paris and had come to certain limits, because Paris is becoming more and more a city that’s like a museum, or a romantic city, and I have to take my distance from that — which I could do using black and white,” he said while in conversation withLounge at Zurich Film Festival, presented by Power Chord Films
“I wanted to say that the 13th district is not Paris, because a French Chinese person can meet a French African and they can meet a girl from Bordeaux. [Those are] encounters that can only happen there,” he explained. Turning multiple different stories into a single film was a challenge that appealed to him — a chance to make his work more “choral” thanks to the numerous voices emerging from different narrative threads.