Roger was a huge fan of the film and Tarsem's work in general. What did that mean to you guys? We thought the movie was very special. We were very proud of it. Making the movie was a profound experience that we all shared. So we thought that the movie would premiere and everyone would see what we saw in the film. There's an industry around movies that's not completely different than the art, but you know what I mean. It was a very complicated time for the film, and, for all of us, kind of confusing and painful. So to have someone we respect so much understand the film and what we were trying to do and appreciate it meant a lot.
The story goes that, fifteen minutes into its TIFF launch, Harvey Weinstein walked out of the premiere, setting the tone of the moviegoing public's response. It barely got released a couple of years later, but the people who saw this film adored it, especially Roger Ebert, Tarsem's most vocal advocate. He would have been overjoyed to see how people are finding the movie almost two decades later.
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