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Mia Wasikowska Plays a Writer in Creative Crisis in ‘Agata the Writer’

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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Interview Named sources Context piece
  • Mia Wasikowska stars as Agata, a Polish author living in Australia who travels to Sarajevo to write about the Bosnian conflict.
  • The character begins to question whether she has the right to tell the story of other people’s suffering.
  • Directed by Kuba Dorabialski, the film is competing in the Venice Critics’ Week parallel section, the Giornate degli Autori.

Mia Wasikowska has brought ‘Agata the Writer’ to Venice, playing a writer forced to confront the limits of telling someone else’s pain.

There are a million ways to tell stories, a million ways to tell stories about war. So we have to keep making them, with a certain responsibility to honour all the damage, all the tragedy they have caused.

· Mia WasikowskaShe discussed the responsibility involved in making films about war and suffering.

Agata is a Polish author who lives in Australia and travels to Sarajevo to write a book set during the Bosnian conflict. Once there, she encounters people’s doubts about her right to tell their suffering. Those doubts push her to reconsider the creative basis of her story.

“There are a million ways to tell stories, a million ways to tell stories about war. So we have to keep making them, with a certain responsibility to honour all the damage, all the tragedy they have caused,” Wasikowska told EFE.

I definitely like taking part in projects that I feel some familiarity with or that I think I understand, but it is also very enriching to work on others where you discover new worlds, new ideas and new concepts. I enjoy both things very much.

· Mia WasikowskaShe explained why she works on both personally familiar and unfamiliar projects.

The film, directed by Kuba Dorabialski, is competing in the Giornate degli Autori, a parallel section of the Venice Film Festival, which runs from Sept. 2 to Sept. 12. Like her character, Wasikowska has Polish roots. She said she values both projects that feel familiar and those that open the door to new worlds and ideas.

Making films is more or less the same, whether it is something big or small. You are always rushing. It is never enough, even with the biggest budget. You always try to make it bigger.

· Mia WasikowskaShe compared the pressures of large and small film productions.

Wasikowska described the production as especially meaningful because she had known Dorabialski and producer Alex White for a long time. She said making the film felt like working with friends. She also said she chooses films based on what inspires her and believes art can influence people by adding emotional colour to subjects that might otherwise seem dry.

I only think from my own point of view, hoping that somehow it connects with the audience. I trust my own instinct, with the idea that what moves me will also move others.

· Mia WasikowskaShe described how she chooses her film roles.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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