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After the near-universal critical acclaim accorded to her debut film “Whale Rider” in 2003, director Niki Caro follows up on her breakout success with “North Country.” She looks slightly embarrassed when I address her as “Ms. Caro” and asks me to call her Niki. Caro sits down with The Crimson to talk about her life, her film, and her duty to tell the stories of great women. The Harvard Crimson: In your previous film, “Whale Rider...
...Caro effectively and devastatingly represents the brutality of the atmosphere: the horrible behavior becomes literally nauseating. It’s almost impossible to believe that grown men commit intimidating juvenility like tossing around a port-a-potty while a female worker is inside...
...Caro succeeds in making a thoroughly complex film, so multifaceted that this review barely covers half of the issues and questions presented. Caro’s masterful direction is evident as every actor reaches and breaks an emotional ceiling...
...eloquence Seth brings to their story makes Two Lives fascinating - and maybe even worth its reported $2.5 million advance. Born in a northern Indian village, Shanti Seth went to Berlin in 1931 to study dentistry. There he stayed in the apartment of a Jewish widow whose daughter, Henny Caro, became one of Shanti's closest friends. Shanti moved to Edinburgh to continue his studies in 1937, as anti-Jewish laws were making life difficult for the Caros in Berlin. Henny escaped to London two years later, but her mother and sister died in concentration camps in 1943. Shanti, meanwhile, joined...
...Caro points out that none of them lowered their fees when their grants rose under the Coalition. "And they never will," she says, "because for institutions that thrive on an image of exclusivity, cutting fees would be terrible marketing...