Pawel Pawlikowski on looking at humans intelligently after Best Director win at Cannes

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]films that are that are open, that really think through situations rather than want to necessarily sell your narrative. That, you know, you find a story, characters, and you and you make it make sure that it's rich and multifaceted, you know, that you can that everyone has their reasons up to a point. Not not from Nazis, let's say.

[00:00:26]And um But um yeah, so So um basically, I think that's the job of of art, you know, it's like what um Chekhov said, you know, when somebody said, you know, "So what do your stories are they teaching us?" And he said something like, "You know, I The artist doesn't teach anything. The artist just should be good at describing the problem well."

[00:00:49]And if we get that done, I think there's hope for people to kind of calm down and start looking uh without reducing everything immediately to their own um narrative.