Closing Night

THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE –
WHY WOMEN NEVER GET ENOUGH

DER FISCHER UND SEINE FRAU

Directed by Doris Dörrie

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 17 7PM CASTRO
FOLLOWED BY CLOSING NIGHT PARTY CASTRO

Veteran director Doris Dörrie cleverly wraps a contemporary romantic comedy around a Grimm’s fairy tale about a wife who can never get enough. Here, the tale begins when Ida, a twenty-something fashion designer, backpacking through Japan, meets Otto and Leo, the “Flying Fish Doctors.” Otto and Leo are scouting for koi fish to resell to rich German collectors, and Ida tags along. Soon, Otto and Ida find themselves “expecting,” and they celebrate their budding love in an avant-garde styled Japanese marriage ceremony before settling into domesticity in Munich. Otto seems perfectly contented to mind the baby and his koi in their cramped apartment, but Ida knits her verve into scarfs—in koi look—and creates stunning new designs that make a big splash all the way to Japan, where she returns with Otto’s former business partner Leo, who is also unhappily married. Ida’s ambition and self-made success, writ large in a riot of color in this entertaining film, seems to ask if modern woman can dare to want it all.

IN PERSON Doris Dörrie

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Country
Germany, England
Year
2005
Run Time
98 min, 35mm, color
German with English subtitles
Cast
Alexandra Maria Lara, Christian Ulmen, Simon Verhoeven, Young-Shin Kim Camera
Rainer Klausmann
Screenwriter
Doris Dörrie
Printsource
Beta Cinema
Email
beta@betacinema.com
Director

Doris Dörrie
was born in Hannover in 1955. She studied at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, and at the New School of Social Research in New York. In 1975 she returned to Germany and graduated from film school in Munich, where she has also taught. Many of her films explore, with wit (and success), relationships between men and women, and include MÄNNER (1985), KEINER LIEBT MICH (1994), BIN ICH SCHÖN (1998), ERLEUCHTUNG GARANTIERT (2000) and NACKT (2002). Doris Dörrie has also authored several novels.