![]() ![]() I don’t really know how to communicate that. I had always had this thing where my mind gets filled up with images or fragments of people talking. Korine: At some point I started dreaming again, I guess. I just needed to disappear for a little while. It wasn’t one thing that changed me or one thing that anybody did. At that time, I didn’t feel things were in a place where I could create. Korine: It wasn’t so much anything like that. THR: I was told that you had gone to rehab. It’s about being lost in a lot of these places and trying to find yourself. Korine: Yeah, there are things that these characters do and places they’ve been that echo things that have happened to me. THR: So were the Paris scenes in the film autobiographical? I had a certain level of paranoia when I was there. I just can’t speak the language and so I was just eating the pastries, so my teeth were falling out, probably because of all the sugar. My parents had moved to the jungle, so I started to like it and I fished a lot and just kind of read books and lived life. Actually, I went back to some of the places, and the film was shot in those same jungles. I went to the Amazon and I also went to the jungle in Panama and lived there for a little bit. I didn’t know if I was gonna make films again or what I was gonna do, so I just kind of traveled all over the world. I wasn’t in a place where I could be honest to make a film. I felt a kind of disconnect from the world - like it was leaving me, as much as anything. I felt like I needed some time to get lost for a little while. I wasn’t sure I really wanted to make movies starting seven or eight years ago, and I wasn’t in the right spot. Korine: I kind of more or less disappeared for a while. THR: What have you been doing for the past few years? I always think it’s an injustice to tie something down, the author’s intent. THR: What kind of statement - for? against? ![]() I’ve never been a person that sets out to make a grand statement, (but) there’s definitely some kind of statement on popular culture. THR: Were you also making a comment on pop culture? It deals with issues of faith and identity and change. It all deals with issues of faith and identity and change. I sat down with my little brother and we started to see that there was an emotional or a thematic connection. There were these two stories and I wasn’t sure what the connection was. I started to think about lives of impersonators and living your life as if you were another person. Korine: There were certain things I’d been dreaming up for a long time - nuns testing their faith by jumping out of airplanes without parachutes and surviving and all these things. THR: What was your inspiration for all this? You could almost say it’s really one story with this like secondary poetic punctuation. Korine: I’d say like a quarter of the film. At the same time, there’s a story about nuns jumping out of airplanes. She convinces him to go to this place and things happen. They want to put on a show in hopes that the world will come see them perform. He meets a Marilyn Monroe impersonator at a commune where all these other impersonators live. In broad terms, it’s a movie about a Michael Jackson impersonator living in Paris who’s down on his luck. Harmony Korine: That’s the hardest thing for me. Afghanistan, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Jersey, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Palau, Paraguay, Republic of Cuba, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, San Marino, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U.S.The Hollywood Reporter: Can you give me a synopsis of the movie?
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