When Tilda Swinton met Pier Paolo Pasolini

French actor Léa Seydoux has appeared in four films at the Cannes Film Festival this year, and has been dubbed the “Queen of Cannes” by the media.In fact, there is another actress who is not too much in comparison, and that is British actor Tilda Swinton.

On June 25, 2021, local time, Rome, Tilda Swinton tribute to the Italian film director (Pier Paolo Pasolini) costume performance art show “Embodying Pasolini” was held.

Count the (The Souvenir Part 2) that has been screened this week, plus the upcoming (Memoria) and (The French Dispatch), and the documentary (The Storms of Jeremy Thomas) with its appearance.

Tilda Swinton, 60 years old this year, also has four or five films appearing at this Cannes Film Festival.

At the same time, in Rome, Italy, a film master tribute event participated by Tilda Swinton was also officially performed earlier.

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This is a show called (Embodying Pasolini), curated by the 52-year-old Frenchman (Olivier Saillard).

Olivier Saillard is a famous curator who specializes in the history of fashion development. He has served as the curator of the Paris Municipal Fashion Museum for a long time.

In January last year, Tilda Swinton and him began to collaborate on planning this project. Through the physical performance of the former, the forty sets of classic costumes that had appeared in Pasolini’s works were re-infused with new vitality on the stage.

“The main purpose of the exhibition is to analyze what influence the film costumes can continue to bring to the outside world after completing their mission of serving the film itself. Through Tilda Swinton, we have achieved a series of effects between her and these film costumes. Dialogue.” Saillard said.

Regarding this special film-related event, Tilda Swinton said that he has always been a fan of Pasolini and has been familiar with the Italian film master’s films and poetry as early as his school days.

In 1996, Tilda Swinton collaborated with director Derek Jarman in the film “Caravaggio”. The latter asked her to take a good look at Pasolini’s “Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo” as a preparation.

In Swinton’s view, in Pasolini’s films, the costumes designed by the famous Italian film costume designer Danilo Donati also played a very important role.

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“The charm of those clothes is very powerful. When I touched the clothes Pasolini wore in “The Canterbury Tales”, I could still feel the trembling in my fingertips. Not to mention “Salò o le 120 giornate di”. Those costumes in “Sodoma”, no matter who it is, as long as you touch it, you will definitely feel an electric shock, which will make you feel that there is some potential danger.”

In addition to the above two films, the costumes used in “Embodying Pasolini” also come from Pasolini’s “Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo”, “Oedipus the King”, “Il fiore delle mille e una notte” and so on.