Jennifer Kent Another wonderful interview from Le Deuxième Regard ' s newsletter, with many thanks to them. Australian Jennifer Kent's The Babadook is touring New Zealand in the New Zealand International Film Festival – other international release dates below. The Babadook goes very deep into the themes of insanity and motherhood. How did this story come to you? I've always felt passionately about the need to face the difficulties of life. Facing the darkness, I feel, actually allows us to more fully embrace the joys as well. I think in some cases, suppressing difficulties can also be the catalyst for mental illness. Keeping all this in mind, I was fascinated to explore a character who was suppressing her difficulties, and in particular, one very traumatic event. I wanted to see where this denial and suppression would take her. This is how the story began for me. Having said that, I never felt judgemental towards Amelia for suppressing. She had suffered en...
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