How did Reprise come about?
The co-writer and I had done a lot of short films together and we were going to write a feature. We got lost along the way while writing some cold war-thriller-conceptual thing. A lot of little antidotes from our past came up. Stuff that we didn’t dare believe could turn into a proper movie. Little curiosities Were you just writing scenes and then discovered the story of the film in them? Yeah, we never sat down and said, ‘what’s the plot line?’ There are all these script gurus and all these people just wanting to do genre movies. There’s a lot of art in that, I’m not undermining that, but there is also space where we need to be more experimental. Particularly when making a film about people in their early twenties; it’s really easy to be condescending about them and expect the audience of that age to be kind of stupid and only want popcorn movies. There are actually a lot of people that are curious and open and can also be an interesting audience. Yeah, this film definitely gives the
