Italian director Alice Rohrwacher (La Chimera, Happy as Lazzaro) collaborates with French photographer and street artist JR (Faces, Places) to deliver a stunning short film named An Urban Allegory. Now available to watch on Mubi, this 21-minute short film takes inspiration from Plato's Allegory of the Cave and also stars celebrated French director Leos Carax (Holy Motors, The Lovers on the Bridge). (Also read: Dahomey review: Mati Diop's probing documentary on restitution of stolen artefacts makes for essential viewing ) Is Leos Carax the allegory himself? An Urban Allegory strikes a beautiful balance between the two directors' creative styles, similar in the sense that both of these artists look at the world embedded upon a layer hidden from plain sight.
The inclusion of Leos Carax here works in a crucial way: he is the messenger as well the message, a secret as well as its keeper. In a roundtable interaction that Hindustan Times attended, Alice Rohrwacher and JR gushed about working with Leos Carax and described as a ‘real surprise’. Alice says, “We had to decide who is that character, one who puts the seed of a thought in the child.
We know some of these characters because we have met such people in our lives. In that case it might be voluntary, but it might be also involuntary, but they help you to think about something that you were not thinking before. So who are those people? They are the fugitives, all those people that help you to think.
They are the fugitive f.