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Chloë Sevigny talks indie films, new movie Bonjour Tristesse
Chloë Sevigny talks indie films, new movie Bonjour Tristesse

Yahoo

time14-05-2025

  • Entertainment
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Chloë Sevigny talks indie films, new movie Bonjour Tristesse

Over a career spanning 30 years, Chloë Sevigny has defined herself as a champion of independent film. Witness a short list of notable movies: Kids (1995); Boys Don't Cry (1999); The Brown Bunny (2004); Broken Flowers (2005); and Beatriz at Dinner (2017). Her newest, the limited release Bonjour Tristesse, likewise proves that small can be beautiful. From writer-director Durga Chew-Bose, it's based on Françoise Sagan's 1954 novel of the same name. Another film adaptation was released in 1958, starring Deborah Kerr and Jean Seberg. The new movie is set on the French seaside. Teenager Cécile (Lily McInerny), her father (Claes Bang) and his girlfriend (Naïlia Harzoune) are spending languid summer days captured with suitable sun-washed cinematography. But things change when Sevigny's character, longtime family friend Anne, arrives. She's quite literally a buttoned-up fashion designer, wearing a crisp white shirt, pearl earrings and a tidy updo. Feeling threatened, Cécile devises a plan to drive Anne away. But she doesn't expect what happens next. Sevigny spoke to Postmedia about Bonjour Tristesse, her love of independent film, and the idea of joining a blockbuster franchise like Marvel. Q: What do you think this story says about women's relationships? A: Cécile is growing into womanhood, but she doesn't quite understand it yet. And she's very threatened by this woman coming into her life. I was thinking a lot about my mother and how she would be lovingly critical in the way that she just wants me to have the opportunities that are available to me, to take full advantage of them. How she comes from a different generation, and what she deems as a way of getting something that one would want. So I think it's more interesting, this kind of generational relationship. Q: In this movie, Anne over-parents Cécile. But I remember you in Kids — your character there was very under-parented. How do you think the teenage years then compare to now? A: It's funny when people say that about Jenny from Kids, because I always imagined her as a girl who went to (a private school) and had a really good family. I think it's because you don't see her household, and in New York at that time there were kids from different upbringings coming together. But how things have changed? I imagine social media and all of that is rather challenging. Even for me it's hard, as far as comparing and despairing. I find the immediacy with which we have to respond to people — vis-a-vis texting or emailing or all these other ways we talk — quite stressful. So I think it's harder to just be in the moment. Q: What draws you to independent films? A: They're just the opportunities that have come my way. I'm just looking for distinct voices, original voices, something new. To me this felt like a (Éric) Rohmer film or a (Pedro) Almodóvar film. I felt this was like a foreign film written in the English language, which I don't come across often. Also, this character is something that I haven't played often. I thought Durg was a really interesting new voice in movies, and I just wanted to be there to help support her. Q: Would you consider joining a franchise like Marvel? A: Oh, I would love to do that. Q: What do you have in mind? A: I'm trying to think of what my son is into. He's into all these superhero movies and Mario Bros. and Frozen. I like all these new live-action movies. Like, the new Lilo & Stitch, I'm excited for. I think all the new Star Wars stuff is exciting. I thought The Mandalorian was great. Q: I read that you were approached for a role in Legally Blonde — is that true? A: I think I might have auditioned for the Selma Blair part. And I think they were interested in me for it, but I don't know why it didn't happen. There were a lot of those movies being made in the '90s, those more poppy teen films. And I was already on this indie trajectory. I think that now people look back and see it was a real divide. Like, why didn't she do more mainstream movies? And I don't know. I guess I didn't think that was something for me at that time. Now I look back, and I'm like, 'Oh, those movies were fun. I could have done them.' Q: What do you do when you're not working? A: My kid is turning five next week, so whenever I'm not working, I spend a lot of time with him. After school, we go to the local playground and we have a really nice community. Yesterday there was a whole gang of us over there just hanging out with our kids. It's just nice having a community of like-minded parents and being able to walk to the corner and get something to eat and somebody else watches your kid. We're so lucky to have that, so I like to develop those relationships. This interview was edited for length and clarity. Bonjour Tristesse is now in theatres and will be available to rent on June 13.

Minnesota child care advocates rally against federal cuts
Minnesota child care advocates rally against federal cuts

Yahoo

time12-05-2025

  • Politics
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Minnesota child care advocates rally against federal cuts

Members of the Head Start program and Kids Count on Us participate in the Protect Our Kids rally at the Minnesota State Capitol Monday, May 12, 2025. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer) It's been a disappointing year for Minnesota's parents of young children and the advocates hoping to secure more investments in child care. Across the state, child care centers are shutting down, exacerbating the shortage of day care spots. Meanwhile, the cost of care continues to climb; only Washington, D.C. and Massachusetts have higher average infant child care prices. Child care workers in Minnesota earn on average just over $15 per hour, often less than they could make at Target or a restaurant. Now, a plan by President Donald Trump to cut funding is threatening the already-precarious child care system. Teachers and advocates for Head Start, the federal program that provides subsidized child care to low-income families, gathered at the Capitol Monday — with hundreds of preschoolers in tow — to protest proposed Head Start cuts and the lack of state action to counteract them. More than 12,000 Minnesota children could lose their care if Head Start funding expires at the end of September. Advocates with Kids Count On Us — a child care advocacy group affiliated with the religious organization ISAIAH — rallied for state and federal spending on child care in conjunction with National Day Without Child Care events around the country. 'Minnesota needs to be bold about raising revenue to fund the things we need, like a fully funded child care system, so it is affordable and accessible for all families,' said Reneé Olsen, who runs child care centers in Barnum and Willow River. The threats to Head Start come on the heels of an especially difficult six months for child care. Although Gov. Tim Walz says he wants to make Minnesota 'the best state to raise a family' — and Vice President J.D. Vance fancies himself a beacon of pro-family public policy — neither the state nor the federal government plan major investments in child care anytime soon. In Washington, Republicans are rolling back programs that provide child care to low income families, at the behest of Vance and the world's richest man, presidential advisor/donor Elon Musk. Vance co-authored an essay in the Wall Street Journal in 2021 arguing against child care subsidies; instead, the government should reward parents who choose to stay at home and raise children, Vance wrote. More than 80% of stay-at-home parents are women. And in Minnesota, there's not money in the state coffers this year to make up for the potential loss of federal funds. The state is already spending more money than it's bringing in, and with tax increases off the table for Republicans, Walz and legislative leaders are looking for ways to cut spending. November's budget forecast, which predicted a $5 billion deficit in 2027 and 2028 if current spending trends continue, ended hopes of wide-scale state-level investment in child care before the legislative session began. State Sen. Grant Hauschild, DFL-Hermantown, said a tax on social media companies, which was included in the Senate's recently released tax bill, could help pay for investments in child care. But in the House, which is tied 67-67, Republicans have vowed to vote against any tax increase.

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