“I’m not interested in comfort cinema, in making the audience feel better. I like challenging the audience,” Franco told the Tribeca Festival Lisboa during a press conference on Friday.
His most recent films include Memory, which starred Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard as broken people fumbling for connection, and Dreams, where Mexican ballet dancer Isaac Hernández co-stars alongside Chastain as an undocumented immigrant who pins his odds-against bid for permanency in the U.S. on his relationship with a wealthy San Francisco philanthropist.
“I’m more attracted to people with troubles, to broken people, because that’s reality. That’s what most of us are. This aspirational thing where directors put someone on screen that’s ideal, I look for the opposite. I look for someone that’s incomplete,…
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