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Dreams That Become Films

1. The Guardian: And the CGI devil?
   Carlos Reygadas: Think for a second. The film is about life, everything you can go through, different representations of evil that we've met, very often incarnated in the devil. Maybe it's also a dream the child has, I don't know. The same thing happens to us in life: when you grow up and think back to your childhood, you can never really know the things you remember are things you created or real. That's the way perception works in the head, isn't it?(www.guardian.co.uk/)
2. Cineaste: About that demon. When that came on the screen, you could hear a wave of astonishment come over the Cannes audience with whom I saw it. This is a new kind of image you've made, an aspect of the Cinema of the Impossible. Where did that come from? Some might view it as fantastical, while your films have been generally grounded in reality, even with the occasion explorations of the metaphysical.
   Carlos Reygadas:Actually I wouldn't say that this is fantasical. Fantasy movies are one of the few genres I don't like. When I was designing this devil, and talking with technicians, they kept going back to notions from Lord of the Rings (2001) and such. I explained to them that this image came out of a dream I had, set in my parents' house, where I lived until I was five. The toolbox the demon is carrying is actually my father's, the one he was carrying before I was born and he still has. (Cineaste Summer 2013, p11)
3. Slant: And you made a red, animated devil who enters the family house twice with a toolbox in his hand. We will never know what's hidden inside. I saw that kind of box in Belle de Jour as well and I still think about it.
   Carlos Reygadas: The thing is I also have the right to ask some questions, so I would like to ask you why the hell you would like to know what's inside? [laughs] Evil is part of our lives. The film is about an ordinary life, the imagined future, fantasy, memory. All elements of pure naturalism! The red devil could be part of dreams, so it's as real as they are and as important as any other part of everyday life.  (www.slantmagazine.com)
4. Carlos Reygadas: They’re always talking about the bloody devil! I wanted to film a dream. I don’t see devils in ordinary life, so I had to make one in a computer. For me, it’s ordinary reality. Reality is not only the conscious present. But also dreams, memories, the imagined future, actual present, immediate past and immediate future. These things are always there in our mind, flipping back and forth really quickly and without any kind of code. This is just a dream. But dreams are just reality. But whatever. (http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk)
   Slant: And you made a red, animated devil who enters the family house twice with a toolbox in his hand. We will never know what's hidden inside. I saw that kind of box in Belle de Jour as well and I still think about it.
   CR: The thing is I also have the right to ask some questions, so I would like to ask you why the hell you would like to know what's inside? [laughs] Evil is part of our lives. The film is about an ordinary life, the imagined future, fantasy, memory. All elements of pure naturalism! The red devil could be part of dreams, so it's as real as they are and as important as any other part of everyday life. I put into the film the photo of a Spanish golfer as well. It represents an end of a certain epoch. It's amazingly detailed, yet you don't see any labels on the clothes and props. Personally speaking, it shows my nostalgia for the better times when you weren't forced to name things. The vision of that sort of pureness makes me calm. I don't like and don't need any sort of brands.
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   Slant: And you made a red, animated devil who enters the family house twice with a toolbox in his hand. We will never know what's hidden inside. I saw that kind of box in Belle de Jour as well and I still think about it.
   CR: The thing is I also have the right to ask some questions, so I would like to ask you why the hell you would like to know what's inside? [laughs] Evil is part of our lives. The film is about an ordinary life, the imagined future, fantasy, memory. All elements of pure naturalism! The red devil could be part of dreams, so it's as real as they are and as important as any other part of everyday life. I put into the film the photo of a Spanish golfer as well. It represents an end of a certain epoch. It's amazingly detailed, yet you don't see any labels on the clothes and props. Personally speaking, it shows my nostalgia for the better times when you weren't forced to name things. The vision of that sort of pureness makes me calm. I don't like and don't need any sort of brands.
   - See more at: http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/feature/interview-carlos-reygadas/316#sthash.trfw9Syl.dpuf