Berlin Review: Céline Sciamma’s ‘Petite Maman’ starts a tender new chapter in a life cycle of girlhood
Céline Sciamma has a tradition with names. Water Lilies‘ Marie, Girlhood‘s Marieme, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire‘s Marianne all share variants of the... Read More
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Berlin Review: Things left unsaid makes Hong Sangsoo’s minimal ‘Introduction’ sing
The Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo shook up last year’s Berlinale competition with the unexpected comedic notes of the otherwise pensive The Woman Who Ran, a... Read More
Berlin Review: Dan Stevens is a perfectly dreamy robot in Maria Schrader’s delightful sci-fi romance of ‘I’m Your Man’
It’s a widely held belief that the earliest composed texts by mankind were of administrative nature. Tablets in Cuneiform scripts as early of approximately 3200... Read More
2021 Berlin Film Festival lineup: New films from Céline Sciamma, Hong Sangsoo, Maria Schrader, Daniel Brühl for hybrid events
New films from Céline Sciamma, Hong Sangsoo and the directorial debut of actor Daniel Brühl highlight the lineup for the 71st Berlin Film Festival, announced... Read More
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