Drømmer producers Yngve Sæther, Hege Hauff Hvattum with director Dag Johan Haugerud (centre) The Norwegian film "Drømmer" (Dreams (Sex Love)), directed by Dag Johan Haugerud and starring Ella Øverbye as a 17-year-old schoolgirl who turns the tables on the adults in her world by writing a book about a lesbian affair with her teacher, won…Read more Norwegian film “Drømmer” wins Golden Bear top prize at Berlinale
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Do-gooder can’t stop progress, or death, in Jude’s “Kontinental ’25” at Berlinale
A homeless man, dressed in tattered clothes and shouting out swear words at random, packs trash into a carryall as he lurches along the leaf-strewn paths of a forlorn amusement park, whose chief attraction is clunky, animatronic dinosaurs. When he leaves the park and walks into the city of Cluj, in northwestern Romania, he passes…Read more Do-gooder can’t stop progress, or death, in Jude’s “Kontinental ’25” at Berlinale
Teens turn tables on adults in Berlinale competition films
Marielle (Laeni Geiseler) can overhear her parents in "What Marielle Knows" Two teenaged schoolgirls turn family dynamics on their head, one of them by developing telepathy that allows her to read her parents' minds, wherever they are, the other by writing a book about a lesbian affair she's had with her French teacher, in two…Read more Teens turn tables on adults in Berlinale competition films
Lorenz Hart bio-pic “Blue Moon” captures falling star of a great American lyricist
American actor Ethan Hawke gives a powerful but disturbing performance as the alcoholic lyricist Lorenz Hart in director Richard Linklater's Berlinale competition entry “Blue Moon”, named for one of Hart's songs with his longtime collaborator Richard Rodgers, played by Irish actor Andrew Scott. Alternately witty, solicitous, hectoring and maddening in his barroom banter, Hawke chews…Read more Lorenz Hart bio-pic “Blue Moon” captures falling star of a great American lyricist
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