Rewriting the Cinematic Body: Laurent Sénéchal on the Radical Eleven-Month Edit of Arthur Harari’s L’Inconnue

The César-winning editor details how he stripped away text to embrace a metaphysical gender-fluid experience, working hand-in-hand with the director to reconstruct the text from the ground up.

The final script of a film is rarely the one that ends up playing in theaters. In the high-stakes ecosystem of independent European auteur cinema, the cutting room has transformed into the definitive…