Month: February 2020

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With only one new competition entry Days by Tsai Ming-liang focus of 8th day of the festival moves a bit more into the territory of the tender male sexuality. After the film of grand Taiwanese art-house director, the second premiere of the day came from Berlinale Specials, and it was Polish director Agnieszka Holland film Charlatan, the biopic of a Czech homosexual herbal healer […]

A red glow bends over the turbulent sea as two voices shout to each other in the opening moments of the Burhan Qurbani’s latest German mafia life epic Berlin Alexanderplatz.  It is a splendid modern-day adaptation of Alfred Döblin 1929 novel of the same name, that manages to showcase the relevant elements of an everlasting inner moral battle of […]

Seventeen years old girl walks on stage with a guitar to perform in her school talent show. As she performs a folk cover of the song “He’s Got The Power” somebody from the audience shouts „slut“. The girl stops for a second, copes with her emotions and quickly continues her performance until the end, in […]

Three Competition entries of Berlinale day 6 finally woke up the spirit of the festival with all their goodness and quality. The day started with The Woman Who Ran, the latest anti-drama by Korean filmmaker Sang-soo Hong, proceeded with wild comedy-drama Bad Tales by Italian director brothers Damiano and  Fabio D’Innocenzo. The day reached its peak with the latest splendid 35mm […]

In his latest feature film Siberia, mastermind filmmaker Abel Ferrara plunges deep within the sea of the consciousness. Merging the major thoughts of Freudian and Jungian psychoanalytic, Ferrara guides his viewers into a delirious and highly sensible experience that requires a lot of commitment and patience in its 92 minutes runtime.  Siberia opens up with a voice, over the […]

70th Berlinale Competition programme got a lot more interesting with films we got on the 5th festival day. Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern presented their social media commentary comedy Delete History, Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond brought a heartbreaking family drama My Little Sister, while Abel Ferrara amazed and shocked audience and critics with his […]

At the fourth day of Berlinale, films Undine and All the Dead Ones had their premieres in the competition programme, while Mateo Garonne – the dark mastermind behind 2018. film Dogman –  had a special screening of his adaptation of Carlo Collodi‘s Pinocchio.  “You stay here until I come back from work. Then you tell me that you love me. Otherwise, you will die. “ – says […]

Day three of Berlinale brought us two more new entries in the competition program First Cow and The Salt of Tears. This was also the day that got us first big regional co-production, Srđan Golubović‘s Father that is part of this year’s Berlinale Panorama selection (link for a separate review).  Based on the book The Half-Life – by Jonathan Raymond who also adapted it into the script for […]

A woman, on the brink of a nervous breakdown, drags her children — a girl of about nine and a boy of about twelve — after her to an old factory. Standing at the entrance, the woman begins to yell at the workers present and the plant’s administration. She threatens that if they don’t pay […]