Jesse Eseinberg is honored for his career at Deauville.
The actor, seen in “Elusive” and “Social Network” and “Welcome to ZombieLand”, went behind the camera.
His first film as a director evokes the conflicted relationship between a mother and her son with Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard in the main roles.
He is quite surprised to be honored with the “New Hollywood” Prize at the Deauville Festival.
Jesse Eseinberg, 38, also came to present
When You Finish Saving The World
, his first film as a director discovered at Cannes Critics' Week last May.
“The interest of cinema is that it makes you travel, he confides to
20 Minutes
.
I'm honored to receive this award but it made me feel a little funny because it's often when you're at the end of your career that you receive this type of award.
Jesse Eisenberg's filmography is one of the most flourishing with filmmakers like Woody Allen, David Fincher or Zack Snyder and sagas like
Elusive
and
Welcome to ZombieLand
.
Activist but not militant
“I was a little nervous to move on to directing, he admits, but it was a normal process for me.
Directing Julianne Moore was intimidating, although she was amazingly professional.
The actress plays an activist mother in a shelter for battered women who has to deal with a musician son played by Finn Wolfhard, revealed by the series
Stranger Things
.
"It's hard to edit films like this in current production," he says.
The importance of festivals is crucial for making fragile works known.
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Jesse Eisenberg evokes activism in his film but he does not feel any responsibility for a possible political commitment.
“I am surrounded by activists whom I admire and support, he says, but for my films, I want to focus on the subjects that obsess me.
He is currently writing a road movie centered on the duty to remember the Holocaust where two friends go to visit Polish concentration camps.
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Julianne Moore