16 - North Shore News ~— Friday, October 27, 2000

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DENYS Arcand wasn’t
nervous about his film’s
premiere at the
Vancouver International
Film Festival.

And he was more excited
about the sun coming out in
Vancouver and the prospect of
a stroll around downtown
than the reaction of his West
Coast peers tes his new film.

In May, the Canadian director succezded in holding the
audience on closing night in Cannes, a Herculean feat. Slotted
in between the award ceremony and the parties, if you can keep
the tired and impatient Cannes audience in their seats you can
play te anyone.

Stardom, Arcand's first film in English, is certainly keeping
people in their seats, and causing quite a buzz. “This is the first
film I've made where people either love it or hate it,” says the
affable Arcand. “It’s either ‘This is a piece of s#!*%, the negative
should be destroyed’ or people enjoy every second of it and
want to see it a second time.”

It's not the film’s story that is causing the controversy, it’s
Arcand’s approach in telling it. Stardem chronicles the quick
journey of small-cown girl Tina Menzhal, trom local hockey star
to global supermodel. But although it’s Tina’s story, the audi-
ence never teally discovers anything about her.

Those moviegoers looking for a real understandins, of who
Tina is are missing the point. “We never know whe this girl is. approach, and one that was a tough sel! for distributors, admits

~ And this is exactly what I want to say,” says Arcand. “Do you Arcand. But “each day was a source of joy trying to create
know who Lady Di was? Was she that dumb or was she very something new,” says the director.
bright and manipulative? Was she out to have a good time? Director of photography Guy Dufaux “had a ball” playing
We'll never know. But we obsess about these figures nonethe- with the varied media formats: from the trashy Jerry Springer
less,” format to a Charlie Rose-style program and the twitchy
Tina’s ascent to stardom is told wholly through the eves of MuchMusic camera style. Stardom’s camerawork is a nod to our
the camera: from the local cable show to the six o'clock news,
everyone wants to capitalize on her sudden celebrity. A risky

DIRECTOR Denys Arcand discusses as scene with Stardom’s lead Jessica Paré.

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