Overview
- The French filmmaker received the D’A Festival’s honorary prize in Barcelona on Saturday and described filmmaking as a vital necessity in her life.
- She said her long-gestating period drama about Mary Wollstonecraft remains difficult to finance after several years of development.
- Hansen-Løve explained that the project grew from reading Mary Shelley’s diaries and conversations with her mother, a philosophy professor.
- She reiterated a commitment to creative autonomy, noting she declined Marvel’s Black Widow and does not make films on assignment.
- In a public dialogue at the Teatre del CCCB, she criticized industry conventions and emphasized an empathetic approach that avoids giving space to violence.