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  • Uncut version of ‘Nymphomaniac: Volume I’ to premiere at the Berlin Film Fest

    Uncut version of ‘Nymphomaniac: Volume I’ to premiere at the Berlin Film Fest

    MUMBAI: Lars von Trier’s hard-core director’s cut for his erotic epic Nymphomaniac won’t be going to Cannes but will instead premiere at the Berlinale in February. The 64th Berlin International Film Festival will present the world premiere of Volume I of the long uncut version of Nymphomaniac, out of competition.

     

    Alongside starring actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, numerous other international stars are part of the Nymphomaniac ensemble: Stellan Skarsg?rd, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier and many others. British actress Stcy Martin celebrates her big screen debut with Nymphomaniac.

     

    “Berlinale audiences will be the first to see the long uncut version of Nymphomaniac Volume I. Lars von Trier, a guest of the Berlinale for the first time in 1984, returns to the festival with this film. The aesthetic he has created in Nymphomaniac is impressive and radical,” said Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick in a release.

     

    Nymphomaniac is the wild and poetic story of one woman’s journey from birth to age 50, as told by the main character, self-diagnosed nymphomaniac Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg). One cold winter evening, the old and charming bachelor Seligman (Stellan Skarsg?rd) finds Joe beaten up in an alley. He takes her to his flat, where he tends to her wounds while asking about her life. He listens intently as Joe tells the lush, branched-out and multifaceted story of her life, in eight chapters.

     

    Von Trier, 57, won the Cannes Palme d’Or in 2000 for the death-row melodrama Dancer in the Dark starring Bjork and Catherine Deneuve and picked up its Jury Grand Prize for Breaking the Waves in 1996. The shorter version approved by Lars von Trier will open worldwide in cinemas starting 25 December, 2013.

     

    The Berlinale will open on 6 February with an all-star romp by US director Wes Anderson at the Grand Budapest Hotel and wrap up on 16 February.

  • Clooneys Monuments Men to open at Berlin Film Fest

    Clooneys Monuments Men to open at Berlin Film Fest

    MUMBAI: George Clooney’s The Monuments Men that is set to release in February next year will make its international debut as part of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

     

    The movie stars George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban and Hugh Bonneville.

     

    This is the second film announced by the fest that kicks off on 6 February. Earlier, the organisers had announced the opening film The Grand Budapest Hotel that too is shot in Germany.

     

    The Monuments Men German-American co-production is based on a true story focused on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by the Allies with going into Germany behind enemy lines to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners.

     

    Two-time Oscar winner Clooney has been a frequent guest of the Berlinale as a producer, actor and director. The Monuments Men will be his second directorial appearance in the official program after Confessions of a Dangerous Mind at the Berlinale 2003.

  • Child’s Pose wins Golden Bear at Berlin Film Fest

    Child’s Pose wins Golden Bear at Berlin Film Fest

    MUMBAI: Child‘s Pose, a Romanian drama about a domineering mother using her social position to try to save her son from jail, has won the Golden Bear for best film at the recently concluded Berlin Film Festival.

    The film directed by Calin Peter Netzer and starring Luminita Gheorghiu in the central role, had been among the favourites for the coveted prize.

    In Child‘s Pose, Gheorghiu shines as the wealthy 60-year-old Cornelia who attempts to buy off the poor family of a boy killed by her son in a road accident.

    “I‘m still shell-shocked,” Netzer reportedly told the press after she picked the award. “I haven‘t quite woken up to this new reality. It will probably take a couple of days for it to sink in.”

    The veteran has actress also appeared in Cristian Mungiu‘s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, an abortion drama that put Romanian cinema firmly on the international map when it won the Palme d‘Or at the Cannes film festival in 2007.

    The big surprise on the night was the best actor award for Nazif Mujic, a Bosnian Roma who had to be convinced to play himself in “An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker” about his own experiences on the fringes of society.

    The film, a docu-drama directed by Danis Tanovic and made for 30,000 euros captured hearts in Berlin for its straightforward storytelling and moving account of the impoverished Mujic‘s desperate attempts to pay for his wife‘s emergency operation.

    The awards ceremony brought to a close the 11-day cinema showcase, where hundreds of films were screened across Berlin.