Bicho ruim

Para além dos filmes, Christian Petzold é bom, mesmo muito bom, nas entrevistas. Quando fala sobre cinema, claro: I have a working structure that I’ve used since making The State I Am In (2000). The actors all come to set at 8 a.m. without any makeup, just their costumes. And the only people who are there are them, me, and someone with coffee. We start to rehearse what we want to accomplish on this day, and it takes us three or four hours to find the choreography of it. It takes some time, and the producers want to commit suicide because nothing happens. But we find the choreography, and then we get the cinematographer and the sound and lighting departments, and we show them what we’ve done. When the actors go into makeup, the cinematographer, the editor, and I talk about how we can film this, and it doesn’t take more than a half-hour to make a storyboard. We write it down and then Hans [Fromm] does the lighting and the actors come back. We do one take, and then at four o’clock we c