Lana Wachowski, director of “Matrix Resurrections”, in peace with uncertainty

The director was inspired by the death of his parents to resurrect Neo and Trinity, the two heroes of science fiction saga.

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After his series of transhumanist science fiction Sense8, broadcast on Netflix from 2015 to 2018, Lana Wachowski had decided to stop turning. His sister Lilly, two years his youngest, received the series, was of the same opinion. Tandem Wachowski wanted to pause, after marking the film industry with Matrix, their film-worship released in 1999, extended by two episodes (Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions). At the time, the trilogy was signed by the Wachowski brothers, Larry and Andy. Since then, the two directors have carried out their gender transition. In 2010, Larry became Lana; In 2016, Andy became Lilly.

The pause has not lasted a long time. Lana Wachowski comes out on December 22 the fourth opus of the Saga, Matrix Resurrections. Lilly, who since his transition is less interested in science fiction, did not associate with the movie.

The director explained to the site specialized in Reel Chicago cinema (his city of origin) which had motivated him to bring him back from None Leo (Keanu Reeves), the rebel of the civilization of the machines, and Trinity (Carrie -Anne Moss), twenty-two years after the first Matrix. “Our parents have fallen sick,” she says. My wife and I returned to Chicago to accompany them during the last months of their existence. “The filmmaker wanted to recreate a climate that would appease his sentence. “One night my brain resurrected these two characters who were dead. I got off and I started writing.” Result: the nostalgic story of the return of the heroes of Matrix. “Something tragic brought me to want to go back,” she explains.

The parents Wachowski – Ron, a businessman and Lynn a nurse – were passionate moviegoers. In Chicago, they took the four children to the cinema, sometimes for several sessions immediately … without consideration for warnings for parents. Stanley Kubrick 2001 film, the Odyssey of the space, released in 1968, marked Lana. It first hated the black monolith which allows one of the primates to dominate its congeners. When his father explained to him the symbolic dimension of the work, “something was triggered in me,” she told the New Yorker in a portrait published in September 2012. 2001 is one of the reasons why I make movies “.

At elementary school, another feeling has proved to it. In his Catholic establishment, girls and boys wore different uniforms and occupied separate rows. The day of the start of the school year, in 9 e (equivalent to the e in France) she went to the row of girls, conscious at the same time as she did not have adequate outfit. Unable to join the boys, she positioned himself in the middle, at the intersection of genres, under the prohibited look of the nun and other students. “After that, I hid and found a great comfort in the books, preferring imaginary worlds to this one.”

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