"Free Hands"

"Free hands", part of the competition program, was presented to the audience of «Salute» by the female director Brigitte Sy and her producer. She told the audience about her interesting career (Brigitte has been involved in filmmaking since her childhood, but made her debut in the director's chair recently), about working with actors and the artistic conception of her work. However people asking questions were more interested in the true story on which the film is based on and in lives of the main characters.

The story of "Free Hands" is really interesting. At first it seems that it is "a film about making a film": woman-director Barbara comes to a Parisian prison in order to write a screenplay, based on interviews with prisoners, and then shoots the same prisoners in her film. However, the continuation of the action shows us that the love story in the film is much more important – there is a romance between Barbara and one of the prisoners. From the beginning, you realize that this love is unlikely to end up with something good ...

During the conversation with the director something like first scandal of the festival VOICES was started . Famous Moscow critic Victor Matizen joked bitterly on the film, expressing his dissatisfaction with what he saw in that way. And because most of the Vologodians seemed to like "Free Hands", a tense atmosphere was created in the cinema "Salute". Someone even joked about possibility of a fight. However, Sy tactfully replied that everybody can understand her work in the way he wants.