Bruno Podalydès [SEP] native language
Bruno Podalydès
Bruno Podalydès (born 11 March 1961) is a French writer, film director, producer and actor. His brother Denis Podalydès is also an actor.
, and added that in his films he was constantly looking for a theatrical kind of language which invited the actors to distance themselves from the realism of everyday life and to move towards a more unexpected or offbeat kind of performance. He assembled a cast of 15 actors, many of whom he had worked with in previous films but including also four newcomers whose work he had admired elsewhere.
For the recording of a performance of the play which is featured within the film, Resnais asked Bruno Podalydès to direct it quite independently,