Berlinale, Berlin International Film Festival 2016
Today marks the beginning of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, which will end on February 21. (Nice coincidence, the Berlinale 2016 is the same age as our Sanremo music festival…)
The jury is chaired by the ever-beautiful and unfading Meryl Streep but it is also formed by our Alba Rohrwacher, Clive Owen, the German actor Lars Eidinger, the English critic Nick James, the French photographer Brigitte Lacombe and the Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska, winner last year of the Silver Bear.
The first screening is dedicated to the film out of competition ‘Hail, Caesar!’, by the Coen brothers, complete with George Clooney and Josh Brolin on the vermilion carpet. In Berlin, however, many international celebrities are expected: Dominic West, Jude Law and Colin Firth to present ‘Genius’, Michael Grandgage, Guy Pearce, Jeff Nichols (for his ‘Midnigth Special’, with Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard, Adam Driver, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst and Jaedan Lieberher), Isabelle Huppert, star of ‘L’avenir’, by Mia Hansen – Løve, Gérard Depardieu for ‘Saint Amour’, by Benoît Delépine, the same Nicole Kidman we loved last night at the Sanremo festival, the same Spike Lee still dealing, among other things, with the #OscarsSoWhite initiative. Iran, after last year success of Jafar Panahi, this year doubles and offers ‘Soy Nero’, by Soy Rafi Pitts and ‘A dragon arrives’, by Mani Haghighi.
As for the films in competition, the festival reading-key seems (altro…)