The director of Netflix's 'The Man Who Loves UFOs' talks about spotting fake news and going back to the 1980s

A1 Digital India News: Argentine filmmaker Diego Lerman's new feature film, about a real-life TV reporter who is being pursued by an invented alien, had its world premiere on Tuesday at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The Man Who Loved Flying Plates (The Man Who Loved Flying Plates) tells the story of Argentine TV journalist José de Zer and his cameraman Chango. 

According to the plot summary on the San Sebastian Film Festival website, it is 1986, and they have received "an unusual proposal from two suspicious signs" to visit La Candelaria in Cordoba, where the film is celebrating its world premiere on Tuesday. .. "Upon arriving in the village, there was not much to see, only a burning field covered with curtains. What followed was the work of a genius in the art of exaggeration with the brilliance of schoolgirls: the ability to make Argentine television most famous." Audio-visual recording based on the opinions of the alien's disciples on biblical history."

Directed by Diego Lerman (Refugees, A Sort of Filmy), from a script by Adrian Binies, hopefully they'll get it done. Its animated cast includes Leonardo Sbaraglia (Pain and Glory, Bird Box Barcelona), who played Big Boss De Zer, a serial killer in 1997, Sergio Preña, Osmar Núñez, Renata Lerman, María Marlino, Daniel Merlino Araoz, Mónica Ayos, Norman Briski, and Augustine Reitano.

You explore the history of domestic violence and adoption in a family in Fuji. Now bring us the story of an entertainment reporter who claims to have evidence of UFOs. What did you like about that story and what topics would you like to explore?

Well, it's a film I've wanted to make for years. I was on vacation in Córdoba, where the story takes place, so I remember the stories, and I always wanted to write something about it. I remembered the character of Joseph, so I started to research and so I thought that an interesting film could be made about him and, for example, on the origins of fake news.

Also, as a filmmaker, I would fantasize about making a film. Joseph, our character, could also be a filmmaker at the same time. There are parts in between, trying to get more information and trying to tell stories with local people, and at the same time thinking like a film director.

It is also a film about faith, what may or may not be the meaning of life or the mystery of death. Then, in a more serious way, it is a film about: faith, what you can call religion, or whatever you like, what you are devoted to.

So there are a lot of levels, different layers that I want to develop. It's a kind of comedy, so I tried to show everything from the perspective of Joseph, a character who starts to lose his mind and mixes fantasy with reality. Perspective is very important. But what I'm trying to do is make everyone understand what perspective you're taking.

In Cordoba, people used to see bright lights in the sky all the time. And I remember, I never thought it was a UFO. But why not? I don't know. Last year, NASA officially said that his ideas had been discussed with people close to him. Joseph was a unique character, but very interesting to me. He was a man who tried to create fiction and history and it was rumored that he had stories that people believed.