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minavoxIt's this time of the year again!
So far it's been a pretty good Berlinale. I saw all the movies I had to, I only slept through half of one, and I have been on time for all of them. This has never happened before.
I notice some trends in the movies I chose: most of them took place in winter (well, if that means I'm done with RL winter for this season I won't complain), an awful lot worked with a fixed camera - no jittery handcamera, very loooong and calm scenes (although the movie which showed a buddhist monk walking as slow as humanly possible through Marseille perhaps overdid it a bit...) (to be fair, the summary did promise exactly this) (and it had the strange charm of looking like Where's Wally? being made into a movie with real actors: Where's the Crawling Monk?) - and in nearly each of them the story or, to be precise, the male main character was driven by a woman getting beaten, raped, misused, humiliated... you get the picture. To which I say WTF???
To soothe my bleeding heart today I first saw a quite disturbing film with Cillian Murphy (in which at least he didn't beat women but instead had sex with each of them who was around for longer than a day. I think the female director wanted to make the most of hiring him. Script necessities it were definitely not) and then saw Cillian Murphy in person at the press conference. Nice!
Now somehow till tomorrow somehow 6 short radio features need to be written. Be someone. I fear it might be me... :)
So far it's been a pretty good Berlinale. I saw all the movies I had to, I only slept through half of one, and I have been on time for all of them. This has never happened before.
I notice some trends in the movies I chose: most of them took place in winter (well, if that means I'm done with RL winter for this season I won't complain), an awful lot worked with a fixed camera - no jittery handcamera, very loooong and calm scenes (although the movie which showed a buddhist monk walking as slow as humanly possible through Marseille perhaps overdid it a bit...) (to be fair, the summary did promise exactly this) (and it had the strange charm of looking like Where's Wally? being made into a movie with real actors: Where's the Crawling Monk?) - and in nearly each of them the story or, to be precise, the male main character was driven by a woman getting beaten, raped, misused, humiliated... you get the picture. To which I say WTF???
To soothe my bleeding heart today I first saw a quite disturbing film with Cillian Murphy (in which at least he didn't beat women but instead had sex with each of them who was around for longer than a day. I think the female director wanted to make the most of hiring him. Script necessities it were definitely not) and then saw Cillian Murphy in person at the press conference. Nice!
Now somehow till tomorrow somehow 6 short radio features need to be written. Be someone. I fear it might be me... :)
