Nightbitch with Marielle Heller and Ritesh Batra (Ep. 515)

Marielle Heller 和 Ritesh Batra 的 Nightbitch(第 515 集)

The Director's Cut - A DGA Podcast

电视与电影

2024-12-17

36 分钟
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Director Marielle Heller discusses her new film, Nightbitch, with fellow Director Ritesh Batra in a Q&A at the DGA theater in New York. In the conversation, she discusses her unique approach to casting the child Actors in search of a more authentic onscreen relationship with their parents, finding filming locations that say a lot about her characters without delving into their backgrounds within the film’s story, and how she sought to achieve a deliberate level of ambiguity through her deconstruction of the traditional motherhood myth. Based on the novel by Rachel Yoder, the film tells the story of a woman who has paused her career to be a stay-at-home mom for her new baby. As she becomes increasingly overburdened with the stress of her new responsibilities, her maternal instincts begin to manifest in canine form. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://dga.org/Events/2025/January2025/Nightbitch_QnA_1124

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  • It was a really chaotic day.

  • It was a huge scene.

  • And I remember this moment in the middle of all that hubbub that the actor who played the server was like, can I just ask a question?

  • Why can't I hear her when she asks me for the kale salad?

  • And I was like, oh, your ears are not tuned to hear women over 40.

  • And that's how he responded.

  • But so that's how my directions ended up being with this movie.

  • I had an answer for everything.

  • It was all true.

  • There was a reason behind everything.

  • It just might not be the sort of logic that the real world operates in.

  • Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Director's Guild of America.

  • In this episode, a mother becomes convinced she has canine capabilities in director Marielle Heller's comedy Night Bitch.

  • Based on the novel by Rachel Yoder, the film tells the story of a woman who has paused her career to be a stay at home mom for her new baby.

  • As she becomes increasingly overburdened with the stress of her new responsibilities, her maternal instincts begin to manifest in canine form.

  • In addition to Nightbitch, Heller's other directorial credits include the feature films A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and Can youn Ever Forgive Me?

  • And episodes of the television series Casual and Transparent.

  • She was nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement and first time feature film for 2015's The Diary of a Teenage Girl and was also nominated for the Variety Talk News Sports Specials Award for 2020's what the Constitution Means to Me.

  • Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York, Heller spoke with director Ritesh Batra about filming Nightbitch.

  • Listen on for their spoiler filled conversation.