Intimate places in Screen Life format

Prize for the outstanding artistic contribution for the film "Dovlatov" and other important events of Berlinale

If in Russia the cinema was revered, like a sport, all propaganda shows found in teleotheism would rejoice at the next rising from the knees.

The Russian film "Dovlatov" was awarded the prize "Berlinal" for an outstanding artistic contribution

Formally, he was given to Elena Trennaya, the artist-winner and artist on the costume costumes. But of course, the “artistic contribution” is their joint painting with director Alexei German German. In Dovlatov, the space prescribed in the smallest details and the image of the frozen November Leningrad - turn into a metaphor of frozen time. Intonation and air in the picture strangely consisting of the sensitive poetic system of the whole film. Readers of the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper called the best picture for the entire festival. “I am glad to reward from Berliner Morgenpost readers, but most importantly, after the premiere of our film, I saw people who read Dovlatov’s newly purchased books,” the director said.

Russian viewers will see the film in early March.

And Timur Bekmambetov’s film “Profile” (“Profile”) was awarded the prize of the audience sympathies of the Panorama program. About the "profile" should be talked separately. This psychological thriller about a British journalist who decided through a social network to penetrate the prohibited Islamic terrorist organization looks in one breath. At the same time, all action takes place inside the computer. Bekmambetov, perhaps, was the first to guess the optics of time. And if humanity emigrates into the digital world in the mass order, it creates its cinema with a new cinema for this humanity. In Screen Life format, all action is shown using monitors of various gadgets: from the Skype window to a conventional browser or phone screen. At the same time, the “profile” has the strength and fullness of the presence. This is a real digital funnel in which there is a place for fear, sympathy, Saspensu.

At the film market, the producers of Hype Production Ilya Stuart and Murad Osmann presented the painting " Summer " by Kirill Serebrennikov to foreign investors. On the red carpet of the closure ceremony, German actress Francis Petri, who shot in the painting of Serebrennikov, “Cheating”, went to photographers with a package with the image of the director’s face and in a T -shirt with the inscription “I have to stay at home”.

Intimate places

The Berlinale-68 program will be remembered by an unprecedented number of inexpressive films. Perhaps that is why the decision of the jury under the control of Tom Teakver was guided by the desire to reward not an artistic achievement (for this there is a special prize that was noted by a mysterious Russian picture about the mysterious Russian writer), and something special, provocative, irritating. As, in anticipation of the festival, the pumpkin admitted: "We will look for wild films, which are less and less in world cinema."

There is such a wild movie!

For fifty -year -old Laura (Laura Benson), any touches of outsiders are unbearable. She hires young men on call, and tries to enjoy, watching them. “Do not touch ” - the slow, reflective movie of Adina Pintille. Shocking, exploring fears, problem areas and limits of informal intimacy. A lot of naked flesh, mutilated by various ailments (one of the heroes suffers from spinal muscle atrophy). Important panoramas of intimate places, and psychophysical immersion in intimacy issues. Cinema at the junction of a game and documentary about a special path to yourself. Actors share the facts of their biographies with the camera - and look like laboratory rabbits. In general, a movie for an amateur. And such a lover turned out to be Tom Teke. In the rating of film critics, the film “Do not touch” - at one of the last places.

Female share

2017 in world cinema will remain a year of change in the struggle for “female rights”, which launched a loud scandal with Harvey Weinstein. As a result of these changes, shares and manifestos of the Time's Up movement (“Time has passed”), the Berlin festival’s competitive program approves gender equal rights in the cinema and draws a portrait of his contemporary.

The "Heiresses" of the Paraguayan director Marcelo Martinezi is a film about the complex ligature and fatigue of relations between the age lesbian couple. About loneliness together and fear to break out of the will (the prize named after Alfred Bauer for new prospects in cinema and “Silver Bear” for the best female role of Ana Brun).

In a brightly painted explosive emotion and sensuality of the melodrama “My daughter” is a female love triangle. A ten -year -old girl from an Italian village is tormented by a choice between a respectable adoptive mother and a biological - a breakdown, easily accessible to drunken drunken Angelica (Alba Rorvacher). Both mothers, as in the "Caucasian Cretaceous Circle", first pull the child to them, then let them go. Because both are real.

The elite prostitute performed by Isabelle Jupper - the heroine of the film “Eve” shocking the profession, and is ready to beat the next client ... just to rescue her husband from prison. The efforts of the director Benois Jaco are aimed at showing Jupper to the youth and attractive. The rest of the energy does not remain.

The heroine of the “Real Estate” of the directors of Axel Petersen and the Manson Manson - the seventy -year -old Neute becomes the heiress of the apartment building, and at the same time, the armfuls of unresolved problems: with emigrants settled, with theft of managers. It is not possible to legally resolve the conflict. And Neyut goes to punitive measures. The satire of Swedish directors demonstrates the helplessness of modern European democracy.

German actress Marie Boymer subtly, pastelly played Romi Schneider at the sunset of life in the painting by Emily Athef “Three Days in Kibrov” . At the resort in Brittany at the time of the dead season, the Franco-German actress gives a frank interview with Stern magazine. The last interview. Melancholic dedication to the star of French cinema, shot in the spirit of a new wave. The work of Boymer deserves a reward, but apparently, it is not “wild” for the jury.

There is no one to blame the mirror ...

The second most important prize-the Grand Prix was received by the picture of the Polish director of the Malgozhata Shumyskaya “Rozh” . The story of a young man who, due to an accident at a construction site, literally "lost his face." An unprecedented plastic surgery disfigured Yatsek and ... made a national celebrity. The poisonous and fresh satire of the clever Schumyskoye on the Puritan Polish society. In the village of Yatsek, a statue of Christ is erected to the very heaven, so that more than in Rio de Janeiro. Stone sculpture and will cause the tragedy. “I always try to see beauty in the imaginary monotony, ugliness, and gray,” the director says. I do not think that in Russia the “face” will be shown. And if any of the distributors decides, the wave of the next “offended” who did not see the film will fall upon him. Because the metaphors of the picture are equally related to our hypocritical society, tearing between a thirst for consumption and church rituals, gratefully accepting imaginary values ​​for the real ones.

The “Silver Bear” for directing the opening of the opening of Berlinale “The island of Dogs” Wes Anderson was received. Family story about a boy who is looking for his dog on the garbage island. Anderson again removes the dolls, rightly believing that in them, unlike computer images, there is real life. Talking dogs are voiced by Brian Cranston, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Bill Murray, who received the prize instead of the Anderson left.

The idea of ​​the "island of dogs" is inspired by the paintings of Akira Kurosava "Homeless Dog" and "Drunk Angel". “At first we decided that we would take a fantasy,” the director said, “but we worked on the project for almost seven years. The world has changed beyond recognition. And we realized that our plot about dogs expelled from an insatiable cat world would be an extremely sharp theme. This story could happen anywhere in the planet at any time. ”

Apparently, the Berlin Film Festival plunged into a crisis zone. In an open letter of leading German directors, instead of “one director with its subjective tastes” it is proposed to create a semblance of an international commission consisting of an equal number of men and women led by a person who would have organizational abilities, love cinema, have active international contacts and could raise Berlin to the level of Cannes and Venice. ” It is known that the search for such a “professional amateur” has already begun. Whether they will be successful, the next Berlinale will show. It would be for the MMKF that they would have found a president capable of "raising Moscow to the level of Cannes and Venice."