by WILL NOBLE
Slovak filmmaker Aramisova made “Cagey Tigers” with Lynne Siefert, pictured, from the United States, and other friends, none of whom is a professional actor.
What’s the most important thing when it comes to making a film? The script? Acting talent? Budget? If you’re asking the FAMU film student who goes by the name Aramisova, he’ll say it’s your friends.
The Slovak filmmaker’s Prague-based project Cagey Tigers – which questions how honest people should be with their intimate feelings – is heading to the Cannes Film Festival this month, competing in the Cinéfondation student section. It’s thanks to contributions from his friends, Aramisova claims, that the short film has achieved recognition as a “cultured, delightful, modern incarnation of Nouvelle Vague spirit,” according to critics at Cannes. Indeed, three of Aramisova’s friends play major acting roles in the film.
“Lynne Siefert [who plays the protective Ganz], my very good friend from Seattle, wanted to be in it so I said, ‘OK, let’s try,’ ” the Cagey Tigers director tells The Prague Post. “She flew straight over from the States and came onto the set like a big star. Then I had to teach her how to act. In the beginning, she had too much of the American smile, and I asked her, ‘Why are you always smiling?’ After that she stopped, and was very natural.”
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