The director is sitting with a MacBook on his lap, in a tearoom – designed by Catherine Deneuve, no less – with the roughly cylindrical dimensions of a light-filled submarine. Audiard will be in attendance in Sydney and Melbourne, but when we meet in Paris he admits promotional duties are the farthest thing from his mind. The Sisters Brothers, the filmmaker’s first English-language film and a Western to boot, premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year and screens around Australia later this month as part of the Alliance Française French Film Festival. Jacques Audiard is busy writing his next film, a musical set in Mexico, when I interrupt him to talk about his latest. The celebrated director explains how he made a Hollywood staple his own
