Why Ignorance Is Bliss for Documentary Filmmaker Nicolas Philibert: ‘The Less I Know in Advance About the Subject, the Better’

Ignorance is bliss, according to Nicolas Philibert, director of BAFTA nominee “To Be and to Have” and Berlin best film winner “On the Adamant,” discussing his approach to documentary filmmaking at IDFA in Amsterdam. The French filmmaker, whose recent films “The Typewriter and Other Headaches” and “Averroès & Rosa Parks” both screen at IDFA this […]
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