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Berlinale 2017 the films and the most awaited protagonists

  • Writer: Michael Gilbert
    Michael Gilbert
  • Jul 13, 2017
  • 3 min read

If The German festival opens its doors. With the sequel to "Trainspotting" and the return of Wolverine. Richard Gere starred in a dinner with unforeseeable consequences while Aki Kaurismaki chooses as its protagonist a Syrian refugee. An Italian only, "Call me with your name" by Luca Guadagnino

f there is a perfect festival, with the sole exception of the climatic factor, this is definitely the Berlinale. The film is first of glamor (the red carpet there, but it is short and does not encourage prospects from Montée de marche), sections - each with its own curator, demonstrating that there is not only the man's formula only to the command - embrace all kinds and also reach the innermost corners of the 5 continents.

More effective in the side sections in the competition (at least that is what the Vulgate), the Berlinale actually graduated last year Fuocoammare by Francesco Rosi, a film that combines reflection on the appeal this popular, so much so that it landed then the Oscars . Backed by Chancellor Merkel, sponsored by the president of the jury Meryl Streep, Fuocoammare , he arrived 4 years later by another of tricolor Golden Bear: Caesar Must Die by the Taviani brothers. In between there were the Romanian case Kerenes , the Chinese noir Fireworks in broad daylight and shot underground Iranian Jafar Panahi, Taxi Tehran . watch Alien covenant full movie online free.

DINNER Steve Coogan and Laura Linney in The Dinner.

Political cinema is welcome at the Berlinale , but does not exhaust a large festival, plural, decentralized (in addition to the nerve center of Potsdamer Platz, the festival extends from east to west, from the center to the periphery, from 7 screens of Palast Zoo as crop Sputnik Kino) and is addressed both to specialists as to the common people.

Italy this year is represented by a single film. As at Sundance, where it was warmly welcomed, Call me with your name Luca Guadagnino (Panorama Special), an Italian-French co-production, scripted by Guadagnino with James Ivory and Walter Fasano and starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet leads on the screen the attraction that comes in a hot Italian summer between the cosmopolitan seventeen Elio and the young American academic Oliver, narrated in the novel by

André Aciman.

Among the films which on paper appear to be missed in 2017 edition to be held from 9 to 19 February, it is worth mentioning: The Dinner Oren Moverman with Richard Gere , Laura Linney , Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall. The director, who had previously directed Gere in The invisible , this time facing the novel by Herman Koch and stages the dinner meeting between two couples out with

tragic results.

It's been six years since Aki Kaurismaki signed his latest film, Le Havre. With The Other Side of Hope , Finnish director delivery to the public on the second chapter of his trilogy on port cities: the story this time is to a Syrian refugee (Simon Hussein Al-Bazoon) seeking asylum in Helsinki.

OTHER-SIDE

A scene from The Other Side of Hope Aki Kaurismaki.

The cast of The Party is superb, Cillian Murphy, Emily Mortimer, Timothy Spall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz. It directed by Sally Potter, the author of Orlando and Tango Lessons . The Party is a comedy with a heart tragedy. He laughs until they leave the knife. Literally. Click here for Latest Movie Online Alien covenant.

This is only the beginning, of course. They will see Trainspotting2 , Logan , James Mangold starring Hugh Jackman, the third installment in the franchise of Wolverine, Return To Montauk Volker Schlöndorff, director of The Tin Drum , and Viceroy's House , period film with Gillian Anderson directed by Gurinder Chadha. The rest of the unmissable at the Berlinale, in our gallery and the daily updates that will post on iodonna.it


 
 
 

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