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John Henry F. Hinkel: The story is about a father of three, Richard Young, who gets diagnosed with testicular cancer. The film takes place in the week leading up to his surgery. It follows his attempts—and failures—to repair the relationships with his kids and wife, who basically think he’s a dick. The film is a comedy though, and there aren’t necessarily a lot of films that take cancer and comedy and put them together...
JHFH: Kieran and I both thought that a lot of cancer films are a little too melodramatic and aren’t necessarily realistic in their portrayal. So, with “The Death of Richard Young,” we really tried to take this idea and move it in a direction where the misfortune doesn’t weigh down upon everything else. As well, Kieran has had some personal experience with cancer and so the story line certainly takes into account his perspective on the issue...
...What would you like the audience to take away from the film...
...novel that’s thrown violently to the floor most often, and avidly taken up again just as often. What author can boast of that?” The novel is written in a unique form, consisting of dialogues between the author and his readers, which take place over a series of prologues...
Fernández writes in the first of about fifty playful prologues introducing his novel, “Let the Reader take charge of my agitation and trust in my promise of a forthcoming goodbad novel, firstlast in its genre, in which the best of the bad of ‘Adriana Buenos Aires’ and the best of the good of ‘Eterna’s Novel’ will be allied, and in which I will recollect the experience gained in my efforts to convince myself that something good was bad, and vice versa, because...