 Straight Through the Heart (Mitten Ins Herz) |
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Film/Video RETROSPECTIVE AND REGIS DIALOGUE STRAIGHT THROUGH THE HEART: DORIS DÖRRIE JULY 8-27, 2000 SCREENINGS $6 ($4 WALKER MEMBERS) EXCEPT WHERE NOTED REGIS DIALOGUE $12 ($6) AUDITORIUM |
A storyteller with a gift for creating characters who exemplify the human experience in unusual circumstances, writer-director Doris Dörrie has emerged as one of the most important and successful German filmmakers of the past two decades. Born in Hanover, Germany, Dörrie was educated at University of the Pacific (Stockton, California), New York University, and the Academy of Television and Film in Munich. She began her career by making documentaries and short subjects, but made a name for herself in short fiction and narrative features. In her remarkable body of work that includes ten feature films, seven volumes of short stories, a novel, and three children's books, she takes a penetrating look at contemporary life and the nature of human relationships with equal doses of melancholy and elation. With piercing wit, Dörrie analyzes her characters' prejudices and personal attitudes as well as their struggles with money, success, unemployment, crime, revenge, passion, and, of course, love. "I have always been most interested in the comic within the tragic," Dörrie has said. "For me it is the only possible form of survival, to develop one's sense of comedy to such a degree that it enables one to endure all that occurs in the world."
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