‘Club Zero’ Director Jessica Hausner Says Mia Wasikowska-Starring Movie Is About Fake News, Not Eating Disorders – Cannes
deadline.comForget about Robin Williams’ Mr. Keating and his iconoclastic sway over his pupils in Dead Poets Society, Mia Wasikowska’s nutrition teacher Miss Novak in the Cannes competition title Club Zero takes inspiring students to a darker level.
Miss Novak transforms her students at a British boarding school into an anorexic cult with her “conscious eating” philosophy.
Her academic disciples have bouts of bulimia and even swear off vegan food. One female character even punishes her father in a power play by refusing to eat.
Others starve themselves for political and environmental reasons. Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner swears Club Zero isn’t about eating disorders. “It’s maybe even more about a strange sort of faith and nutrition religion.” RELATED: Cannes Film Festival 2023 In Photos “It was interesting in showing how an idea can influence the action of us humans,” said the director.
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