在电影节上看的这片子，主办方请她本人来了。电影结束之后有个提问环节。
A film directed by Erick Zonca. Tilda Swinton is in almost every frame of it.
电影开始前她出现在台上，高高瘦瘦的穿一件黑色的夹克，短的金发。
她说，这是Erick Zonca拍的第二个电影。Erick Zonca是一位了不起的电影人，真可惜这只是他的第二部电影。这个电影能在这个电影节上放映我真是so so proud。这个电影节有很好的品味，他们排了我参演的好几个片子（笑）。Cambridge is where I learnt proper drinking, I mean, knowledge. Now fasten your seat belts, and I'll meet you after.
她走到座位上。她和我坐在同一排。我在左边。她在右边。虽然中间隔了大概十几个人，我禁不住老要往她的方向看。
电影开始。她的表演没什么可说的。从一出场她就让人相信她是那个疯疯狂的酗酒成性的放纵邋遢的女人。然而渐渐的你会发现这个人物是令人同情，甚至令人喜爱的。Julia开始转变，或者说，她性格的一些方面渐渐的展现给观众。她性格中柔软的方面，由于她绑架的那个小男孩的介入，一丝一丝的渗透出来。你会感到你甚至在性格上产生了和Julia的认同感。她杀了人，她在荒野上疯狂的开着车躲避警察的追捕，直到撞开国境线，于是她到了墨西哥。撞开国境线似乎是一个象征，在墨西哥的Julia是一个异乡人，然而她对Tom的情感越来越多的展示。这也是为什么Tilda之后强调这个电影是关于这个人的，关于Julia这个人物，她的绝望她的弱点她的疯狂她的惶恐她的转变。关于她。
片子放完之后Q&A。整个对话期间，Tilda Swinton给人的感觉是 - 幽默，直率，大方，聪慧，执着于电影事业。
我就来记一下大概的谈话内容。
她说这片子不关乎narrative，相比，更关乎territory, border，以及the person (Julia)。"I think this is the first idea in film history, cracking through the border like that."
There are few frames in which Tilda is absent in this film. Talking of which, she said she actually prefers to be in every frame of the film. She quite likes to be in greater part of a film because in this sense you can really deliver something to it, rather than having other concerns when acting, considering the tune of the whole film.
She said recently it had been like finishing a thesis of a personal kind for her. Her children had been very young before, so she wasn't really able to work in the films she would like to. And during the past few years she has had the experience of being ringed up by strangers, people she had never met before, being asked to attend their parties and to be in their films. It's like being a spy, it's like taking a course, experiencing a different kind of film making. Film making is different in the US from in the UK. It has also changed in the UK over the last few years. The BFI board used to have full responsibility for the film culture in the UK. She said this film is the first film that opens her whole new next stage. "I can't fake in America any longer". The interviewer asked about a badge she was wearing on her jacket. She talks a bit about it. She recently dedicates herself to this '8 1/2 film foundation' that aims at introducing children to films/cinematography otherwise wouldn't be exposed to young children. It involves setting up a database for kids to see parts of the films of different genres they put up for them, films that kids wouldn't see normally on screens. If the kid writes to them they would send a full-length film to him as a present on his 8 1/2 birthday. She said she really loved this idea and they had organized a festival dedicated to the notion in Nairn, a small town in east Scotland where she lives.
Then comes the questions.
1. personal impact for Tilda after shooting this film?
she said a month before the shooting their budget was cut down 1/3, so the process of shooting the film was not entirely dissimilar from Julia's state in the film. it was all kind of "what am i going to do next" situation. Budget being cut down means you have less time for the actual shooting, if you know in film industry time is money. We all try to shoot as many scenes as possible in a day. Everyday you think 'oh how many scenes we have to shoot today!' You saw the film, the making process was indeed like that. Erick said to me "You see that traffic? Go! In Action."
In order to give her character some elements/texture Julia should carry she worked and get some muscle, a shoulder blade that Julia would have and nice tits. "Now I'm fucking skinny again!"
2. about Mitch. a woman found him to be an annoying character.
She said yes it's really great that you said that because I feel the same way myself. The way his feeling himself righteous while judging her to be false is really annoying, particularly because he's kinda in love with her in a way. "I found that very annoying. I guess that would drive her down the neck of the bottle. It would drive me down the neck of the bottle."
3. about the boy who plays Tom
"The boy is a very interesting element". they didn't have very much time to find the boy and they spent a length of time worrying, thinking they might have got the wrong one. But seeing the film assured them that he was the right choice. "He was a great find". Aiden comes from a soldier's family, like herself. And during the first bit of shooting he just had this kind of superiority, thinking they (Tilda and Erick etc) are insane. But later he showed his childishness gradually, which worked very well.
4. about her choice of project
"it's really the filmmaker". The filmmaker always comes first rather than the project. Like Derek Jarman. I had a 9 year working relationship with Derek Jarman, I was living with him now and then during that 9 years also. We would sit in the kitchen and talk about things and that sometimes lead to a film. We would talk about our love about Victorian age and that's The Last of England. That's my habit of choosing projects. It's always out of the conversations with the filmmaker that starts the film. Later I received invitations from people I'd never met before and been asked in their films I would always consider if I would like them too. It's about making contact, which is part of the work I do.
5. degree of preparation for a film
try to feel as authentic as the person as possible. she would try to work out scientifically how exactly would she behave, in physical context etc. I don't look like a corporate lawyer in Mid America so I have to work out how to be someone like that. When you appear in a film for the 1st time you should make people go "Oh right that's a new person I've never seen before" make people forget about characters they've seen you play. it's like being a spy in the war.
6. about Julia reminding people of Gene Rowlands
She said both she and Erick Zonca are fans of Cassavetes films and yes that's why this film shows traces of influence from John Cassavetes. She said before it was shown in Cannes there was this rumor on the internet about Julia being a re-make of Cassavetes's film Gloria, which she found annoying. "Julia is not Gloria, but I bet she has met Gloria."
