February 15, 2007

Berlinale, 2/15.

Berlinale "Once a bastion of difficulty and high seriousness - an identity that suited an event held in midwinter in a city with a vexed, often grim history - the Berlinale, which began last Thursday and concludes with awards on Sunday - has grown into something bigger, more varied and perhaps less distinctive," writes AO Scott in the New York Times. He's right on the money with his second-page comments on the acting in several entries this year; and like Dennis Lim, he has me kicking myself for missing Lady Chatterley.

Great coverage still going on at sites pointed to from here, here and here.

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Posted by dwhudson at February 15, 2007 1:47 PM

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just to add to the self-kicking ;-) : lady chatterley is one of this year's "golden bears" in my book as well. truly astonishing piece of movie art.

greetings
thomas

Posted by: thomas at February 16, 2007 4:37 AM

bleh. Do the contrarian! Lady is good, not great. Some of the stuff in that film is soooooooooooo pretentious in a French arthouse film sort of way that it is really rather risible. My review (written before Berlin):
http://european-films.net/content/view/567/57/

Posted by: Boyd at February 20, 2007 3:37 PM