Jennifer Kent Interview on Rape Revenge Movie The Nightingale

We talked about her uncompromising vision, her commitment to historical accuracy, rape on screen, and the varied responses she’s received. An edited and condensed transcript of our conversation is below.JEZEBEL: From where I sit, it seems like this movie is controversial even before most people have had the chance to see it. I wonder if that’s your perception as well.It’s a little mystifying. It’s a war film, and it’s based on historical truths. Things that have happened in my country.

No, it hasn’t been my experience. I don’t use social media. I don’t go to that place because it’s a cesspool of random comments from strangers, often people who haven’t seen the film. It’s not good for your mental health to go there as an artist. All I can say is these things happened. They happened then, they’re happening now, and we haven’t gotten very far turning a blind eye to people’s suffering.

Your filming of the rape scenes did strike me as responsible, even if it’s a function of your innate sensibility, for discussing trauma through Clare’s nightmares or the way that you frame the rapes from the point of view of she who is being raped. More responsible, that is, than other depictions I’ve seen in film and on TV.I was hard-pressed to find a rape film that wasn’t in some way potentially titillating for someone, some sick individual. I wanted to give no one the opportunity for that.

No. We can an incredible financier in BRON, a Canadian company. They’ve been so supportive. Also Screen Australia and the Australian Film Corporation who’ve all been very supportive of this story being told. It was very difficult to make, and we didn’t get enough money to make it easy, that’s for sure, but they were very supportive of it. Even at the script stage, I didn’t have people saying, “You can’t write that,” because we know. We know these things happened.

I cant believe that you kept on asking for rape scenes during 4 questions

RealGDT I, for one, defer to the director on her vision and message. But will only add as a sidenote that I personally don’t have any issue with watching a rape-revenge film.

RealGDT Just another example of a piece of art being reduced to political ideologies in this culture that is woefully anti-art and fascistically political.

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