Do you know which directors rank high for Konkona Sensharma?
Actor-Director Aparna Sen and the late Renaissance Man Mukul Sharma’s daughter, whose latest directorial segment in Lust Stories 2 got rave reviews, picks French Director Francois Truffaut, Charlie Chaplin and Hong Kong Director Wong Kar-wai, as her mum would not let her watch too many Hindi films.
Konkona picks her favourite cinema experiences through a lis Films like Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921), Carla Simon’s Summer 1993 (2017), Wong Karwai’s Happy Together (1997), Lynne Ramsay’s We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011), Lars von Trier’s The Idiots (1998), Francois Truffaut’s Jules And Jim (1962) and The 400 Blows (1959) have become available on MUBI under the ‘Hand-Picked By Konkona Sensharma’ section from Thursday, July 6, 2023.
“When we see something that touches us, if it’s an experience that has moved us, we always want to share it with loved ones,”
“I feel like that is almost the essence of any kind of art form or expression, which is really to share the feeling of what it’s to be a human being, what it is to be alive and make sense of life. I love to get all these different perspectives of different directors. I grew up watching a lot of these films,” she adds.
This story is from the August 2023 edition of GLOBAL MOVIE MAGAZINE.
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