berlinale

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: the indulgent misfire ‘My Brother’s Name is Robert and He is an Idiot’

Synopsis: Robert and Elena are two siblings living in a remote rural area. Elena is about to take her final… Read More

February 21, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: an original and unorthodox look at Iranian cinema in ‘Pig (Khook)’

Synopsis: A blacklisted Iranian director is alarmed when several filmmakers are murdered around the country. He’s alarmed not only because… Read More

February 21, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival: Emily Atef’s triumphant and poignant ‘3 Days in Quiberon’

Synopsis: Over the course of 3 days, late German actress Romy Schneider is interviewed in a hotel in France. Surrounding… Read More

February 19, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Eric Poppe’s haunting and audacious ‘U – JULY 22’

Synopsis: On July 22, 2011, a right-wing extremist murdered over 77 young men and woman on Utoya island in Norway.… Read More

February 19, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘The Real Estate’

Synopsis: A Swedish woman returns to her home country after living 25 years abroad. She inherits a large building with… Read More

February 19, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Laura Bispuri’s powerful and affecting ‘Daughter of Mine’

Synopsis: A drama centered on a girl who is living a seemingly happy life with her parents who raised her… Read More

February 18, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Cedric Kahn’s superbly acted and engaging ‘The Prayer’

Synopsis: A heroin addict enters a religious rehabilitation center far in the mountains in hopes of liberating himself from addiction.… Read More

February 18, 2018

Berlin Film Festival: The Critics Grid Scores So Far – Which Films are the Best Reviewed So Far?

With a third of the Berlinale Competition already behind us, here’s where the competition stands on the Screen International Jury… Read More

February 18, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Benoît Jacquot’s ‘Eva’ starring Gaspard Ulliel and Isabelle Huppert is contrived and unconvincing

Synopsis: A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm. Benoît Jacquot’s EVA… Read More

February 17, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Christian Petzold’s ‘Transit’

Synopsis: When a man flees France after the Nazi invasion, he assumes the identity of a dead author whose papers he… Read More

February 17, 2018

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