Priority is creating dialogue with public: French director Stephane Brize

"I wanted to establish a long distance dialogue with the audience, but certainly not in a way of fighting banners going against Africa or a specific politician," French movie director Stephane Brize told Xinhua in an exclusive interview.

"I don't want to address a message to Europe about the crisis, but I address my own necessity which is to observe the world... to embrace the reality," Staphane said about his movie The Measure Of A Man (La Loi du Marche) in competition at the ongoing 68th Festival de Cannes.

But Brize criticized the attitude of the European Union leaders, he said: "I see a certain 'blindness', I think they are bright minds but they don't know how to read humanity, they only read calculating tables and that's it. Having only a financial reading of humanity, and finally they are the poorest of soul."

About the inspiration for the movie, the French director said it was really the summary of what he read on the press or heard from TV or radio year after year.

"At one point, it's time to act and when you have so many emotions piling up, this creates a necessity to film, then what creates the necessity was my disgust of what I was seeing, therefore I invented a story using every information and mixing them creating a dynamic arc with a social body," Brize explained.

"My first preoccupation when I'm writing is always not to have a 'black and white' approach to where you have the defined hero and you know exactly where you are," he said.

"I think this is a poor vision of what a drama should be about in a film, while I want to show that everyone has good reasons to decide to go one way or the other, then it's up to the audience to project their own stories and to decide what they would have done," he continued.

For Brize, when he films, he wants to create what he calls "anti-spaces" where each person can project his own stories, education or vision of the world.

The Measure of A Man is a movie about the story of an unemployed man Thierry. At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry lost his factory job because his boss wanted to move the production abroad. Going through humiliating interviews and training programs, Thierry started to work in a supermarket as a security guard, which soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. Enditem