BEVERLY HILLS, California – "biutiful," the haunting tale of a cancer-stricken father and one of five languages Academy Award nominees this year, has never been done today, the film's Director, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu,-said Thursday during a panel at the Accademia.
He said that he didn't think he would be able to find funding.
"I started to shoot literally one month before the economic collapse in 2008," said Gonzalez-Inarritu. "This film would never again be funded. The fact that he is dying? Just it would be impossible to make a film like that again. I had the privilege really with the resources that I had. The budget I was like 20 million dollars, so it was expensive for a film like this. "
This figure seems low compared to those Oscar contenders as "Start" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: part 1", whose budgets were in the range of $ 200 million. But Gonzalez-Inarritu said distribution for the Mexican movie, which candidate best-actor stars Javier Bardem, was difficult in the United States due to dark tone of the film.
Foreign language film directors appointed were envious of other budget "biutiful". Yorgos Lanthimos, Director of Greek overprotective family drama "Dogtooth," said the debt crisis in his country, which finances the production of Greek films approved, tightened to shoot his next film. He said "Dogtooth" originally cost approximately $ 250,000 for make.
"It is really hard to collect the money," said Lanthimos. "I did my next film with even less than that. I don't know how much will it cost to finish. It is really hard when the Greek Film Center does not have the money. We know the situation with Greece. My next film was approved to be financed by the Greek Film Center, but don't have money. "
Rachid Bouchareb, the Algerian filmmaker of "Outside the Law," said he didn't have to combat a budget to make his film about three brothers Algerians in France during the Algeria's struggle for independence, but he had to defend itself from the controversy in France where "Outside the Law" intensely was criticized for its representation Algeria's struggle for liberation.
Susanne Bier, the Danish film director of "a better world," insisted that any financial limitations stimulated creativity making her film on a pair of separated parents and their child bullying.
Denis Villeneuve, Canadian Director of drama in the Middle East "incendies," said that he shot only scenes that end up in the film for not wasting money.
"What you see on the screen," Villeneuve said, "is what we shot".
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