Kristen will be on French TV on May 20, 2012

Kristen will be on French TV on May 20, 2012

Walter Salles, Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart will do an exclusive interview on Canal + French TV on May 20, 2012. The emission will be broadcast at 11.35am (French Timezone). More infos as soon as possible.

Translation

Cult. In 1957, Jack Kerouac revolutionize the worldwide literature with “On the Road”, the evident and cult text of the Beat Generation. Many film-makers had tried to adapt this autobiographic logbook of the author crossing the USA on his own. Francis Ford Coppola didn’t succeed but he hasn’t given up: he went to Brazil to find Walter Salles to give him the project and to product it. After filming the epic in motorcycle of the young Che Guevara through the Latin America, Salles track the hobo’s traces.  The cream of the new generations of actors, among them Kristen Stewart who changes of register after Twilight, play a youth in search of freedom. “’On the Road’” is a universal story, the one of immigrants’ children who don’t found their place in the puritan culture of 50’s,” said the director. “ It’s also the end of the conquest of the West and with it, a bit of the American dream. Our period can give this feeling that we have made everything, seen, classified. And there are nothing to decode.”

Emblematic. “I discovered ‘On the Road’ when I was a teenager in Brazil, under the military dictatorship” said the director of ‘Central Do Brasil’. “The book wasn’t translated so I read it in English. The book as passed between people at the university. For me, it will always be an emblematic work: The Beat Generation defined the way we lived or the way we would like to live.” The challenge seemed to be impossible and yet, Walter Salles wins hands down: it gives to the movie an incredible and beautiful wind of liberty, which may not let insensitive at Cannes…

Source => KStew France