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🗓️ 19 April 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Director Niki Caro discusses her desire to tell a World War II story from a woman's perspective in The Zookeeper's Wife.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
0:12.5 | Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. It's a thrill of be sitting across from my guest, Nikki Caro, who first came to my attention, |
0:25.3 | a little film called Whale Rider in 2002, but since then she's done North Country. |
0:28.9 | One of my favorite films is actually The Vintners Luck, which I think is really a beautiful film, |
0:32.0 | McFarlane USA, and her newest film is Zizukeeper's wife. |
0:33.6 | First of all, Nikki, thanks much for being here. |
0:37.6 | Thank you for having me. And one of the things I really have come to love about your work, and even going back to as like memory and beauties, you basically make these films about people |
0:41.4 | sort of coming into their own power in these communities, sort of figuring out, and it can be a man |
0:46.4 | or a woman. But I wonder where that comes from for you as just as a storyteller. Well, I suppose |
0:53.7 | you don't have to look very far because I come from New Zealand, you know, |
0:57.6 | I come from the bottom of the world. |
1:00.0 | And I think something that's consistent in the New Zealand character is that we kind of fight |
1:07.4 | really hard. |
1:08.6 | If you follow rugby, you'll see that, you know, New Zealanders kind |
1:12.9 | of punch above their weight in the sporting world. And I have an all black shirt, so yes, |
1:18.0 | that's right. And in the filmmaking world also, I don't think any of us are sort of grown up |
1:25.3 | to consider ourselves heroic in any way. So I think these |
1:31.2 | sort of characters that you're identifying are all very ordinary, but respond to the challenges |
1:40.6 | of their circumstance and become heroic in their own lives and the lives of |
1:45.1 | their communities. |
1:46.5 | And it's often the scene, I mean, it's basically even the first scene in the Zookeeper's |
1:50.1 | Wife, really kind of almost a dreamlike beauty, almost the way these characters see the |
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