Este Heim may be in Berlin working on the buzzy British indie Sunny Dancer, for which she wrote the score, but she harbors ambitions to write the music for the current Oscar favorite.
Paul Thomas Anderson is no stranger to musicians, as the “One Battle After Another” filmmaker has directed more than a dozen of the Haim sisters’ music videos and the short film “Valentine” (he also cast Alana Haim in “Licorice Pizza”, with small roles as Este, Danielle, and their mother, Donna, who happens to be an elementary school PTA teacher).
However, when asked at a press conference for “Sunny Dancer” if she would like to return the favor someday, Este Haim answered definitively.
“I think Paul is one of the greatest directors not only of our generation, but of all time. And I feel very, very lucky to have worked with him on most of our music videos. I consider him like an older brother,” she said. “Yes. If Jonny Greenwood retires, I’ll be right there whenever Paul wants.”
If Haim considers PTA his elder, he now considers George Jacques, the rising British director of “Sunny Dancer”, his younger brother.
“I mean, I have two sisters and I have two brothers,” she said, adding that she would happily work with Jax for “the rest of my life” (assuming Greenwood doesn’t retire, of course).
“Sunny Dancer,” led by Bella Ramsey and starring Neil Patrick Harris, opens the Berlinale’s Generation 14 Plus series on Friday night.
