Alice Rohrwacher on Why You Have to Go into the Void to Make Good Movies

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Alice Rohrwacher on Why You Have to Go into the Void to Make Good Movies

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Cannes-Winning director Alice Rohrwacher was selected to be this year's prestigious Film Society of Lincoln Center Filmmaker in Residence. Rohrwacher grew up in the Tuscan countryside and never saw a moving image until she was an adult. No Film School's Emily Buder discusses faking her way into her first directing gig, boredom's role in producing creativity, and why we need to go into the void to be great filmmakers.
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