Berlin International Film Festival Archives

‘For Lucio’ Review: A Rambling Eulogy To The Italian Singer-Songwriter Lucio Dalla [Berlin]

February 21, 2022 1:14 pm

Resembling more of a personal tribute than exhaustive biography, Pietro Marcello's Lucio Dalla documentary, "For Lucio," takes its title as an invitation. A rambling eulogy that is just as often confusing as i...

‘The Novelist’s Film’ Review: Hong Sang-Soo’s Latests Is Yet Another Charming, Focused Autofiction [Berlin]

Mark Asch

February 19, 2022 9:35 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Many of Hong Sang-soo’s films are structured around a woman’s solitary wanderings. The single ladies played by Kim Min-Hee in “On the Beach at Night Alone” or “The Woman Who Ran,” or Lee Hye-Young in “In Front...

‘This Much I Know To Be True’ Review: Andrew Dominik Captures Another Moody, Deeply Human Portrait of Nick Cave [Berlin Film Festival]

Rafaela Sales Ross

February 16, 2022 9:36 am

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Sat in front of a computer, musician Nick Cave reads a few questions aloud. These are deeply existential musings sent in by people he has never met. A teenager reflects on how daunting it is to entertain the i...

‘The Passengers Of The Night’ Review: Charlotte Gainsbourg Eventually Finds Her Way A Moody, Melancholic Drama [Berlin Film Festival]

Rafaela Sales Ross

February 14, 2022 3:57 pm

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The streets outside her window are dripping with hope, and yet Élisabeth (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is lost. It is Paris, 1981, a new president has been elected, and Élisabeth’s husband has left, claiming the thri...

‘Fire’: Juliette Binoche & Vincent Lindon Create Sparks But Only Tindersticks Truly Sets Claire Denis’ Love Triangle Alight [Berlin Review]

Jessica Kiang

February 14, 2022 9:07 am

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Of all the unsolved mysteries in Claire Denis' new Berlin Competition film, the biggest may just be its U.S. retitling to a generic and not particularly representative "Fire." The film's English title in the r...

‘Coma’: Bertrand Bonello’s Latest Is An Unforgiving, Nightmarish Blast [Berlin Film Festival]

Rafaela Sales Ross

February 13, 2022 12:47 pm

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Love letters rarely include knock-off Barbie dolls engaging in incest, but the conventional is often off the table when it comes to French director Bertrand Bonello. “Coma,” Bonello’s latest, begins with a mis...

‘Incredible But True’ Review: Quentin Dupieux Delivers A More Grounded Post-Comedy Comedy [Berlin Film Festival]

Elena Lazic

February 13, 2022 10:23 am

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Few directors are better equipped to make an interesting and entertaining film in the middle of a pandemic than Quentin Dupieux. Seemingly unperturbed by this “new normal,” the French filmmaker continues on hi...

‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ Review: Brisk Introduction To Synthetic Diamonds Questions The Nature of Authenticity [Berlin]

Christian Gallichio

February 12, 2022 5:33 pm

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Demystifying and questioning the very notion of authenticity, Jason Kohn’s informative and oddly riveting, diamond-documentary “Nothing Lasts Forever” is ostensibly about the oft-antagonistic relationship betw...

‘Flux Gourmet’ Review: Peter Strickland Delivers Sensory Overload In His Most Bizarre, Possibly Best, Film [Berlin Film Festival]

Charles Bramesco

February 11, 2022 4:00 pm

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Just as the Tiktok-ers and Instagrammites of the world had completed the mainstreaming of ASMR, master of the tactile Peter Strickland has returned to restore the unsettling, alien quality to sensation. In “Fl...

Berlin Film Festival Adds New Films By Claire Denis, Andrew Dominick, Lucretia Martel & More

Rodrigo Perez

January 19, 2022 9:43 am

Festivals, News

While somewhat arbitrary and beholden to what’s finished, what’s available, and what’s ready, film festivals tend to have good years and bad years, depending. And well, after several good years, where the Berl...

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