![]() "I'm not Jewish but I went to elementary school in a synagogue. ![]() I thought that that was a good story for me to tell, both as a film-maker and as a female."Ĭaro talks about her connection with this period of history. It represented a film that could be focused on care, compassion and kindness in a time of darkness. So, I was incredibly surprised to receive this script that offered a new way of telling the story of the Holocaust. "Like most of the world I had never heard the name Antonina Zabinski, let alone the role she played in history. This moving drama is based on Diane Ackerman's 2007 best-selling non-fiction novel about a couple in Warsaw who saved about 300 Jews during World War II by hiding them in their zoo.Ĭonsidering Caro's resum, which includes The Vintner's Luck (2009), McFarland USA (2015), and the beloved Whale Rider (2002), The Zookeeper's Wife does not seem like an obvious choice. Her upcoming film, The Zookeeper's Wife, stars Oscar winner Jessica Chastain as Antonina Zabinski and Johan Heldenbergh ( The Broken Circle Breakdown), who plays her husband. Maybe it's because we're at the bottom of the world, so we have to shout to be heard."Įvidently, Hollywood has been listening. "It's good to be an outsider and I hold on to that perspective. ![]() "I think there's an advantage in coming from New Zealand," she says. "How can that be?"Įqually astounding is that two such successful women (Caro and Jane Campion) who belong to this elite group couldn't be more geographically distanced from Hollywood. ![]() That statistic, 4 per cent of directors are female, is the same as it was then." She leans forward. She was in Los Angeles promoting her first Hollywood movie, North Country, and the term "female director" was a novelty back then. While technology moves at the speed of sound and the world's political landscape is ever-shifting, the conversation with Niki Caro remains the same as it did when we met in 2005. Niki Caro tells a story that fell through the seams of history, writes Michele Manelis. ![]()
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