Este Haim may be in Berlin with the buzzy Brit indie “Sunny Dancer” — for which she wrote the score — but has aspirations to write the music for the current Oscar favorite.
Paul Thomas Anderson is someone the musician knows very well, with the “One Battle After Another” filmmaker having directed more than 10 of the Haim sisters’ music videos and their short film “Valentine” (and also casting Alana Haim in “Licorice Pizza” — with smaller parts for Este, Danielle and their mother Donna, who happened to teach PTA in elementary school).
But asked in the “Sunny Dancer” press conference if she’d like to one day return the favor, Este Haim made herself very clear.
“I think Paul is one of the greatest directors of not just our generation, but of all time. And I feel very, very lucky that I’ve gotten to work with him on most of our music videos. I sort of view him as kind of like my older brother,” she said. “So yes. If Jonny Greenwood happens to retire, I will be right there for Paul whenever he would like.”
If Haim considers PTA to be her older, she now think of George Jaques, the fast-rising Brit director of “Sunny Dancer,” to be her younger brother.
“So I’ve got two sisters, and I have two brothers as well,” she said, adding that she would gladly work with Jaques for the “rest of my life” (assuming, of course, Greenwood doesn’t retire).
“Sunny Dancer” — led by Bella Ramsey and also starring Neil Patrick Harris — opens the Berlinale’s Generation 14plus strand on Friday night.