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Doris Dörrie - director of the film Naked

Interview - Venice 2002

German director is interviewed during the 2002 Venice Film Festival where her film Naked was selected as a competing film

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by Federico Greco

German director Doris Dörrie is at the 2002 Venice Film Festival to present her film Naked selected as a competing film.
In the interview the director talks about her love for "those films you can shoot with amateur video-cameras". She believes they offer the possibility to use the camera in a different way, sneaking into reality, as it happened during the French Nouvelle Vague and Neo Realism in Italy. Her film Erleuchtung garantiert (1999) was one her films shot entirely on video and released in 35mm for the cinema in many European countries as well as North America.
Nackt (Naked) [+see also:
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is instead the story about three couples who meet for a fancy dinner, during which they will decide to place a bet.
"The singing and the structure of the story come from my first opera experience in Berlin", she says, where in 2001 she presented her production of the Mozart opera Cosi fan tutte. "I was interested in men singing, looking so nude because they had to show their heart. In fact while women keep talking and continue to analyse the problems, men can't bear to discuss it all the time".