As the son of legendary French filmmakers Jacques Demy and Agnes Varda, it was almost a mortal lock that Mathieu Demy, after many years as an actor, would end up behind the camera. His intriguing feature directorial debut, Americano, interweaves footage from Documenteur, a nonfiction film of Varda’s in which Demy appeared as a child, and centers around the story of a young Frenchman drawn back to Los Angeles to wrap up his recently deceased mother’s estate, only to learn of a mysterious woman, Lola (Salma Hayek), in her will. I had a chance to speak to Demy one-on-one earlier this year, about Hayek, getting his film’s title tattooed on his arm, and what his mother thinks of his re-appropriation of her work. The conversation is excerpted over at ShockYa, so click here for the read.