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French-born Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe has high regard for Indian culture and traditions, and for him, coming to India is a sort of homecoming. This year, Laxe’s film “Fire Will Come” was screened at the Jio MAMI 21st Mumbai Film Festival with Star. The filmmaker is in Mumbai to attend it.
Talking about India at the sidelines of the festival, Laxe expressed: “I know Indian culture a bit and the importance of India in history. So, coming to India is like coming back home in a way. You know you are in one of the most important places in the world.”
He also requested Indians to keep their traditions alive unlike in many other places of the world where traditions are being gradually forgotten. Laxe said: “This is a place where traditions are still alive. Everywhere else there is only modernity, unfortunately. Indians protect their traditions and this is something we really need at this moment. We have lost the link and the roots. Don’t make the same mistakes that we did in Europe. We are dying. It’s over.”
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The filmmaker admitted that he hasn’t watched a lot of Indian films but remembered watching one film that left a deep impact in his mind. “I still remember watching an Indian movie at a festival. I really enjoyed it. The filmmaker and actors are very popular. The film was dealing with the idea of destiny and the rules of the world. It was quite transcendent, even if people were dancing all the time. I think it was a very well-balanced film. It was deep and light at the same time and very powerful,” he shared.
The film has impacted him in a way that Laxe wants to keep it in mind while working on his next. The filmmaker, who spent quite a few years of his childhood in Morocco, revealed: “My next will be an adventure tale. It’s about people who are looking for a trance party in the desert of Morocco. I would also like to have the balance of the Bollywood film I just mentioned to you. It has an adventure inside.”