As a Sundance opener and an official
Berlin film fest entry, the film clearly has creative credentials, but I'm not sure what segment of the public, other than committed festival customers, will find it wholly satisfying.
Not exact matches
After premiering two
films at September's Venice
fest, perhaps the most surprising thing about Werner Herzog heading the jury at February's
Berlin Film Festival is that he won't be inflicting another
film upon the competition.
I saw this
film at the
Berlin Film Festival last year where it premiered, and listed it as one of my favorite
films of the
fest.
The
film thrilled audiences from
Berlin to Fantastic
Fest and went on to score a nomination for the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
The ultimate haptic heroine of the AFI
FEST was the unnamed protagonist of Krotkaya (A Gentle Creature), the third narrative
film of the
Berlin - based Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitza.45 The Russian title is that of the original short story by Dostoyevsky (1876) about a meek young woman inexplicably committing suicide, but, in its country of production (France), the
film is called Une Femme douce — like the 1969 adaptation of the same story by Robert Bresson directed.
Acclaimed at festivals worldwide including the
Berlin Film Festival, AFI
Fest and Fantastic
Fest, the award - winning BULLHEAD is visceral saga bursting with rage that TwitchFilm calls «a tremendous accomplishment... one of the most original crime
films in recent memory.»
Banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi «s Taxi, in which the filmmaker stars as a taxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best
film Saturday at the 65th
Berlin International
Film Festival.Another
fest favorite, Chilean director Pablo Larraín «s subversive and darkly comic new
film El Club (The Club), picked up the Grand Jury prize, or the Silver Bear.
Ecstatic critical notices at Toronto and Telluride (Kris's take here) are merely the newest feather in the
film's cap: it already nabbed the Golden Bear (plus Best Actor and Actress) at February's
Berlin fest, and was released to a shower of acclaim in the UK this summer.
She has written, directed and produced many videotapes and
films, among them the cult feature, «The Man Without a World», 1991, (
Berlin Film
Fest., U.S.A. Film
Fest., Ghent Film
Fest., London Jewish Film
Fest, etc.) She is represented by the Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York.