David Gregory-Interviews on The Night Porter (2006)

Thank you very much for this bonus material to a classical cult film.

I've just watched the film, and these interviews. Film is one of those "magical" which I consider masterpiece just because it's a little short of a "proper" masterpiece. For me, this is what film can achieve, "that" which is really real, and evades description...

These interviews are also great, revealing a lot of different things about the film. You've carefully chosen the stills, and some great sentences which stayed in my mind. It is really amazing to me, this impossibility of understanding each other, between US and the Europe ( of course, with exceptions on both sides ) and I presume it's the result of Holliwood ruling global film industry for many generations and shaping the (mis)understanding of what film really is. Prior to the Night Porter, I watched an American film, and I was surprised it wasn't that bad. And then at the end, I realised it was a remake of an old French film, and probably because of that it had some "meat"!
"their culture has no words that could appropriately describe the film" made me laugh, but it is a sad fact... two kinds of people who talk different languages and can't understand each other, and they are not necessarily geographically devided: this division is in each country.

Perhaps the most interesting thing I've been contemplating after these interviews, is the word that Charlotte used: "THE CALLING", that invisible power that made Dirk choose the book, then leave it in attic for years, until the time was right, until he managed to get 3 different people together (Dirk, Charlotte and Liliana) to join their ideas and sensibilities and make this film. It shows how difficult it is to achieve this magic, dependant of time and so many other factors, but then when everything gets together, it's BOOM!

how is this unzipped?

Thank you!