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“A session can be as dazzling as the excitement”

“A session can be as dazzling as the excitement”

IN THERAPY SEASON 2: The Directors Talk (1/5) – Throughout the week, Télérama gives the floor to the directors of the new season of the Arte series. This Monday, April 4, Ajnas Jawi, who directed the episodes with Ain Hydra.

My mother was a psychologist, and I did thirty years of therapy. So I hit familiar ground, especially since on paper, there’s everything I love about this series which is based on dialogues and actors…except for the limitations of reverse shot-based staging, which I’ve always avoided in my films. Limiting myself to something I hate, studying the possibilities of this supposed exercise amuses me. I quickly understood that I am not the owner here, as on the sets of my feature films, but only the tenant. In the series, in general, the director is “erased”. It is important above all to respect the exact grammar rules that can be read by onlookers.

I had less freedom than cinema, but that didn’t stop me from having some ideas for directing. Within a restricted framework, one could experience thousands of little things, especially by observing corpses. To visually translate the imbalance in Ines’ brain during the sessions, I changed the intensity of the light. And I blurred the picture in moments of therapeutic dialogue when you could no longer hear Diane — the effects linger, louder in outside scenes, muted inside, far away when listening is an issue. I also slipped into some visions, like in the first scene of the season, when Diane Adel (Rida Kateb) saw one of his patients from season one sitting on his couch.

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