Movie The East – interview with Director
Web site Female First captured an interview with Zal Batmanglij Director’s of The East (being released in the UK this week).
The East is about a young woman who works for a private intelligence firm. She is conservative and religious and she remakes herself as the exact opposite in a bid to infiltrate a group of anarchists who are committing direct actions against corporations, is how Zal sums up the plot.
– You wrote and directed – so where did the idea for the film start?
I co-wrote it with the leading lady Brit Marling and for us it started with the idea that we were seeing a lot of generational frustrations. I think our generation felt frustrated in a way that was that was unique and palpable and we wanted to capture that.
We thought the idea of a person from the corporate space and people from living off the grid that naturally comprised two extremes of the generation.
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