If you ask Rebecca Miller, it’s getting harder and harder to make movies about people in a room talking.
That particular brand of intimate, personal storytelling, the kind the director of “Maggie’s Plan” and “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” is known for, is a challenging prospect for financiers weighing up a Darwinian landscape for cinemagoing.It’s why Miller’s latest, “She Came to Me,” which opens the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday, feels like a triumph for the American director, who marks her return to narrative features after an eight-year hiatus.“Making a movie like this is actually meaningful for independent cinema — it’s meaningful that we got it made,” said Miller.
“Every time that happens, it’s a real victory, because it is very difficult … it’s hard to get personal films made.”People are still eager to see stories about other people and themselves, she said,
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