“I think Lotfy did a great, great job,” said Adam Bessa says of U.S. director Lotfy Nathan about his newest title , which is playing in competition at the Red Sea International Film Festival this week. “He comes from documentary, and I could feel in this film that it was really, really rich in terms of work and digestion we can see the arc of the character was beautiful.
“We follow this guy who smuggles gasoline and everything that happens to him and how the trap slowly closes on him,” said Bessa. “It’s a parable of someone who cannot really fit in in the world, you can relate it to a character like maybe a little bit, these kind of people who try to make an effort to fit in but at some point you don’t know if that’s their mental condition, their higher sensitivity of the toughness of the world that they have to go through.
The Tunisian-French actor spoke at length about how the project was a “special” one for him as he had never filmed in Tunisia before. “It’s a portrayal of Tunisia after 10 years after the Arab Spring.” Bessa decided to go method for the role to really encapsulate what being a loner felt like and spent three weeks alone in a hotel room. Then, to take things even further, he spent time with smugglers in Libya to assimilate into the role. premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, where it played in Un Certain Regard and Bessa won Best Performance.
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