Sophie Hyde and Aud Mason-Hyde's Cross-Generational Watchlist

IMDb: Your film Jimpa has some wonderful themes of family and generational love. Are there films which the two of you have shared with one another which you may not have discovered otherwise?

Sophie: Gosh, I mean I always talk about 20th Century Women.

Aud: I was about to say the same thing.

Sophie: I think you saw that only recently, didn’t you?

Aud: No, you showed it to me, so it still counts. It’s one of our favorite films, and probably is partly an inspiration for this. It’s one of my favorite films still.

Sophie: And I think that one’s a generational film, too. You don’t have that many – it can be quite a hard thing to see. I couldn’t see that onscreen very often.

Aud: But you know one that we talk about a lot is Beginners.

Sophie: Yeah Beginners, of course – so, Mike Mills...because I think Mike does that thing of speaking about family in a really interesting way, and family being your biological family and your sort of extended family of people that you’ve chosen. And I think he has a really interesting take on character as well. So those were really important to us in this.

Aud: I don’t think we talked about this for the film, but we both saw together Drive My Car and loved it so much. And then there was a point in the making of this where we saw we made something...not similar—because it’s not at all— but there’s something in it that feels sort of similar.

Sophie: There were so many elements of Drive My Car that I just loved. It went to new places and [speaks to] the process of making a piece of theater, I suppose — and we had been in the process of making film.

Aud: I feel like I’ve gotten such a wonderful film education from you in my life. So many great films shown to me by my filmmaker parents.

Sophie: And you did tell me to see something recently…

Aud: Oh, it was My Favourite Cake, that Iranian film. It’s so beautiful. It’s just beat for beat perfect. It’s so particular, and you believe it and you want to be there. I love that film — and you still haven’t seen it! She’s bad.

Sophie: One of the things about raising a child is reintroducing films that you’ve loved to them. So, for me, re-showing Aud Stand By Me or Dead Poets Society, which we both love. The Miyazaki films are so exciting when you have a child.

Sophie: But even discovering and watching Moonlight and the Wong Kar-Wai films. Those things are so exciting to re-share and watch someone be excited by movies.

Aud: And I am very excited by movies.

Aud: Oh, and one more, which is absolutely necessary, is Y Tu Mama Tambien!