The Turning Director Floria Sigismondi on What Inspired Her to Become a Filmmaker
If you’ve seen a music video during the mid-90s, chances are you’re familiar with Floria Sigismondi. The filmmaker cut her teeth directing the biggest music stars of the time - most notably Marilyn Manson’s "The Beautiful People." Sigismondi’s jittery camera-work and brooding, gothic images were pretty much the de-facto look of the 90s alt-rock scene. Recently, the filmmaker’s begun to branch out into directing features - first the underrated bio-flick The Runaways and now The Turning, an adaption of Henry James' ghostly novella.
In The Turning, a new governess (Mackenzie Davis) is tasked with taking care of two orphaned children (Finn Wolfhard & Brooklynn Prince) at their palatial estate. However, things take a turn for the sinister when the governess discovers her predecessor disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and she begins to be haunted by less-than-welcoming apparitions. The film is the perfect vehicle for Sigismondi’s visual aesthetic, allowing her to go full gothic horror - in particular, there’s a close-up of an eye that reveals far more and the most haunting credit sequence in quite some time.
In the following interview with Sigismondi, she discusses what drew her to becoming a filmmaker, transitioning to features, and how the script for The Turning changed when she came aboard. For the full interview, watch above.
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