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Iolanthe's Quotable Viggo
25 May 2019 08:58:22 Found By: Iolanthe
This week I'm looking back at a film which, alas, I still haven't seen because there is no version with English subtitles for Region 2 (and why not?) Loin Des Hommes. This is a film which Viggo was very eager to make. It's also one for which he requested a long preparation time, so determined was he to deliver convincing French and Arabic. Arabic, of course, was a new language for Viggo and he worked hard to create the correct regional dialect. Although fluent in French he then had to take the Québécois edge off it. Unsurprisingly it was David Oelhoffen who came up with one of my favourite quotes about Viggo: ...it's difficult for things to go wrong when you work with Viggo Mortensen.’
In Far From Men,Viggo Mortensen, his sharply planed face weathered and solemn, plays a man who looks as if he were quarried right out of the hard red-rock earth.
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
30 April 2015
it's a face that paints a thousand unknown memories)...
filmuforia
1 September 2014
I had dreamed of bringing Viggo Mortensen on board; his singularity made him the perfect fit for the role.’
Director David Oelhoffen
labiennale.org
21 August 2014
I'd seen him in a Spanish film called Captain Alatriste and I knew he could speak perfect Spanish. I didn't know he could speak any language on earth, but I always had his face in my mind for this character, it actually helped me to write the script.’
2015 Tribeca Film Festival Interview: David Oelhoffen
By Lia Fietza
Indiwood
25 April 2015
It was one of the easiest decisions I ever had as far as accepting a part. I felt fortunate that it had been offered to me.’
Viggo Mortensen
More Than a Movie: Far from Men Tells Important Human Story
By David Onda
Xfinity
24 April 2015
How long did it take you to master the French and Arabic?
I think I worked a lot. I worked for months and in Spain, where I live, I found someone who was from North Africa, and he helped me a lot. I looked at the whole script, and I made sure I could say it all in Arabic and made sure it was Arabic from that region.
Venice: Viggo Mortensen Talks Mastering New Languages
by Ariston Anderson
Hollywood Reporter
2 September 2014
Is there nothing he cannot do?
Paul Byrnes
Sydney Morning Herald
31 July 2015
Sometimes I asked people I met on the street [in Algiers] or in the cafes about things that could help me to finish building the character in the film we are soon going to shoot in the Atlas mountains. Specific things about phrases or historical references in our script - trying out my very limited Arabic vocabulary, mixed with the French that I'm refining for the shoot - but in general just seeking out human contact, to go along touching, even if it was only ephemeral brushing against, the history of the many cultures that have passed through this city.’
Viggo on preparing to film while in Algiers
For It To Rain
By Viggo Mortensen and Fabián Casas - translated by Ollie and Zoe
Sobrevueloscuervos.com
19 October 2013
We always thought with Viggo Mortensen that Daru’s character was very close to Camus himself, a Camus who would have stayed in Algeria, with no Nobel prize and literary success, a Camus who would have become a teacher.
Interview: Far From MenDirector David Oelhoffen
Fliks
by Steve Newall
13 October 2015
[Darus] lived with the ugly side of people and has decided to distance himself from everything - violence, corruption, conflict, the evil side of things. He wants to do good, teaching Arab children to read. I understand that impulse, but no one can flee forever because life is finally going to seek us out.’
Viggo Mortensen: "Camus has the ability to plunge into the grey areas"
By José Manuel Cuéllar - translated by Ollie and Zoe
ABC.es - Hoy Cinema
2 October 2015
...the landscape pushed us together, and we're really small... I like that David chose to do several shots where we're so small, that you really have to look, even on a big screen -- we're that tiny -- when we're leaving the school...”
Viggo Mortensen
TIFF Q&A transcribed by Topaz
14 September 2014
Nobody moseys like Viggo Mortensen. In The Road, Appaloosa, Jauja, and the new French Western Far From Men, the erstwhile Aragorn masters the tricky art of being a figure in the landscape. When it comes to traipsing either purposefully or desperately across the widescreen frame, he’s several lengths ahead of the competition...
Adam Nayman
AV Club
30 April 2015
Viggo Mortensen is terrific as Daru. He shows the conflicts of a principled man living in an unprincipled time, almost exclusively through minor shifts of his face and eyes. Few actors can say as much as he can by saying little.
Dana Lemaste
Thinking Cinema
25 April 2015
Mortensen has a heroic presence but he is also unafraid of conveying an almost feline grace. There are moments in this film when he reminded me of the young Gary Cooper, and of Steve McQueen, two other actors who convincingly integrated sensuality and masculinity. These are qualities he shares with Kateb, and when they are together on screen their interaction is absolutely riveting.
Christos Tsiolkas
The Saturday Paper
31 July 2015
It's the kind of story that you can transpose to many places in the world right now,” says Mortensen. “These two people seem so different and so unlikely to be able to carry on a conversation, much less become friends, but it is possible, only it takes a certain amount of patience and a degree of forgetting oneself, and to really, really listen to someone else.”
Interview: Viggo Mortensen
Tobias Grey
The Financial Times
27 March 2015
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© Viggo-Works/Iolanthe. Images © One World Films.
Far From Men Q&A at Maison Française
29 April 2016 09:26:21Source: YouTube.
Found By: Chrissie
Categories: Loin des Hommes
Movie Promotions
Thanks to Chrissie for bringing us this wonderful video posted by Columbia Maison Française from Viggo's appearance there last month.
Deleted Scenes
14 April 2016 10:10:31 Found By: CoCo
Categories: Loin des Hommes
Our thanks to CoCo for the find. Loin des Hommes DVD FR deleted scenes.
© One World Films.
Far From Men Screening and Conversation with Viggo Mortensen
1 March 2016 08:26:07Source: @camusnyc2016 (Instagram).
Found By: ollie
Categories: Events
Loin des Hommes
Many thanks to ollie for finding this additional Camus event on Instragram.
Quote:
© One World Films/Pathe.
Monday, March 28, 2016, 4:00–6:00pm
Far From Men Screening and Conversation with Viggo Mortensen
COLUMBIA MAISON FRANÇAISE, 515 W. 116th, BUELL HALL, 2nd FLOOR
Co-presented with Columbia Maison Française
Admission is free (RSVP required at maisonfrancaise.org)
Film in French with English subtitles. Followed by a conversation with Viggo Mortensen, moderated by Professor Madeleine Dobie, Department of French, Columbia University.
During the early days of the Algerian War of Independence, a solitary schoolteacher (Viggo Mortensen) and a prisoner (Reda Kateb), on opposite sides of the conflict, must join forces to survive. They face difficult moral choices on their journey as they confront dilemmas of accountability and condemnation. Inspired by Camus' short story "The Guest," French director David Oelhoffen creates a penetrating set among the magnificent landscapes of the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. . . .
Far From Men Screening and Conversation with Viggo Mortensen
COLUMBIA MAISON FRANÇAISE, 515 W. 116th, BUELL HALL, 2nd FLOOR
Co-presented with Columbia Maison Française
Admission is free (RSVP required at maisonfrancaise.org)
Film in French with English subtitles. Followed by a conversation with Viggo Mortensen, moderated by Professor Madeleine Dobie, Department of French, Columbia University.
During the early days of the Algerian War of Independence, a solitary schoolteacher (Viggo Mortensen) and a prisoner (Reda Kateb), on opposite sides of the conflict, must join forces to survive. They face difficult moral choices on their journey as they confront dilemmas of accountability and condemnation. Inspired by Camus' short story "The Guest," French director David Oelhoffen creates a penetrating set among the magnificent landscapes of the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. . . .
© camusnyc2016 (Instagram). Images © One World Films/Pathe .
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