Cheyenne Carron must be saluted for practicing Rilke's recommendations to a young poet so aptly. In cinema, she is "alone as the child is alone" , when he comes and goes in the midst of grown-ups, alien to their preoccupations which he believes to be important, and which are so unimportant. No one among professionals in the profession is interested in what it does, much less what it is. She could have learned from it: give up filming, or comply with ideological and commercial codes. But there is this necessity in her that Rilke invokes in his abrupt question: "Would you die if you didn't have to write anymore?" Having answered yes, she goes on her way, producing, writing and directing her films herself. So it is always out of convention, as the poet wishes.
It is the first thing that seduces in his new opus, The Son of a King : something new, early, unexpected. She stages a group of high school students. Suburban teens,
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