{"id":35339,"date":"2019-11-07T06:33:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T13:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=35339"},"modified":"2019-11-07T06:33:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T13:33:07","slug":"camus-birthday-celebration-with-viggo-mortensen-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2019\/11\/07\/camus-birthday-celebration-with-viggo-mortensen-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Camus’ Birthday Celebration with Viggo Mortensen – 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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    \nReda Kateb and Viggo Mortensen from     Far from Men <\/a> <\/p>\n

    David Oelhoffen\u2019s latest film, Far From Men, is based on Albert Camus\u2019 short story \u201cThe Guest.\u201d Set during the Algerian War and shot in the manner of a Western, the film features a French and Arabic-speaking Viggo Mortensen as Daru, a schoolteacher in remote Algeria required, against his will, to transport murderous prisoner Mohamed (Reda Kateb) to meet his justice. The two men must confront their own morality and each other against a backdrop of the Atlas Mountains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Reda Kateb describes him as “like an actor-citizen in his sense of responsibility”.
    \nThat kind of immersion means that his roles, especially if they are physically or emotionally gruelling, become part of his life. His last spoken-word album, Under the Weather, was dedicated to Albert Camus, whom he greatly admires for taking a principled stance against Stalin even though it cost him his closest friendships on the French left. “He suffered during his lifetime by being honest, by being true to himself, by staying in the moment,” says Mortensen reverently.(Mortensen on Camus     via <\/a>)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    Viggo Mortensen, Camus Again <\/a><\/p>\n

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    Alajbegovic was at Columbia to meet the actor Viggo Mortensen, who, that evening, was to re\u00ebnact a lecture that Camus had given at the university during his trip, on no less a topic than \u201cThe Crisis of Humankind.\u201d Camus\u2019s daughter, Catherine, who also lives in Lourmarin, had sensed something in Mortensen\u2019s pensive performance in a film adaptation of her father\u2019s short story \u201cThe Guest.\u201d Alajbegovic had reached out to Mortensen\u2014\u201cI just threw my bottle at Viggo\u2019s sea,\u201d he said\u2014and a week later had a response in the affirmative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    After the talk, which he delivered before an enchanted crowd, Mortensen suddenly realized he had to get going. As part of his attire for the evening, he\u2019d left off an article of clothing that he holds dear\u2014his Bernie Sanders watch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Reda Kateb and Viggo Mortensen from Far from Men David Oelhoffen\u2019s latest film, Far From Men, is based on Albert Camus\u2019 short story \u201cThe Guest.\u201d Set during the Algerian War and shot in the manner of a Western, the film features a French and Arabic-speaking Viggo Mortensen as Daru, a schoolteacher in remote Algeria required, … <\/p>\n

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