They just can’t stop with the omnibus films set in one city can they?
The German capital will undergo the “Paris Je T’Aime” and “New York, I Love You,” treatment for the upcoming “Love Berlin,” Variety reports. The project will not technically be a part of the former two films’ “Cities of Love” series that was produced by Emmanuel Benbihy, though it does have the executive producers of the disappointing ‘New York’ edition behind it.
Oren Moverman (who has recently been in talks to helm Universal’s upcoming Kurt Cobain biopic) has been named as the first confirmed director to make one of ten shorts. The short will star Ben Foster, who also played the lead in Moverman’s striking post-war directorial debut “The Messenger.”
The films will be love stories, all set in various locations around the city and will be shot in the summer. Hopefully the picture will recover from the uninspired mess that was ‘New York.’ And maybe its separation from the Benbihy’s series proper may show some hope in that direction. With the summer production, perhaps we can hope to see a fitting premiere at the Berlin Film Festival next year. Omnibus films, as we’ve noted though, are hard to pull off. Best of luck to them.
