This year's Berlin Film Festival was dimly star-studded, quietly beginning and quietly closing.
The domestic animation film "Wonderful", which previously shouldered heavy responsibilities, although it received unanimous praise, it was still grainless in the end.
Zhang Zhen took the Sino-Japanese co-production "Mr. Dragon" to compete for the Berlin Golden Bear Film Emperor for the fourth time, but he still failed to achieve his wishes. Previously, he had been shortlisted for three films, such as "The Juvenile Murder Incident on Muling Street", "Mahjong", and "Love You Love Me". In the end, Berlin's various awards and Chinese films were not related to Chinese actors.
The film that won the Golden Bear for Best Picture this year was a big surprise. The chairman of the jury, Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, has a unique taste, changing the history of the Berlin Film Festival's enthusiasm for political themes in the past, and awarding this year's Golden Bear Award to a "little fresh" love film "Flesh and Spirit" with an alternative style.
Flesh and Spirit is directed by Hungarian director Irtico Injetti.
It tells a somewhat perverted love story: two self-wounded and mentally flawed characters, in the cold ice and snow world, love each other and produce feelings, as the film tells the love story of the male and female protagonists, the director constantly cuts the camera back to a male deer and a female deer in the snow wasteland, and the feelings of the two men and the two deer take care of each other.
The slow narrative rhythm, the poetic scenes alternate with the bloody slaughterhouse, such a strange narrative method, it is no wonder that film critics think that the style of the whole film is weird and neurotic.
The films shortlisted at this year's Berlin Film Festival are quite unpopular, only the new film "On the Other Side of Hope" by Finnish film master Aki Korismaki has saved a bit of face with a super high evaluation of 3.7 points, but in the competition of the Golden Bear, it was unfortunately lost to "Flesh and Spirit", and finally only won the Best Director Award.
For this award, Aggie Kaurismäki expressed great unhappiness, knowing that he is an award-winning professional at major European film festivals, but some media said that he was drunk high before the award, and needed to slow down, and the ghost knew what was happening.
On the Other Side of Hope, which tells the story of Syrian refugees who come to Helsinki, Finland, in search of a place to seek refuge and meet and integrate with the locals, it is a masterpiece that integrates the political, social, economic and human nature of the country, focusing on the vulnerable segments of society while being closely linked to hot current events.
At the Berlin Film Festival, which has always been politically correct, the film broke the golden bear, and it is no wonder that the director was unhappy.
The only talking point at this Berlin Film Festival should be the post-film awards, and the film "Night Alone by the Sea" from South Korea will send Kim Min-hee to the queen throne, which is the second post-film trophy of Korean actors at the three major film festivals, previously The Cannes Film Queen of Jeon Do-yeon.
"Night Alone by the Sea" is directed by Hong Sang-so, which is also his 19th personal work, in which Kim Min-hee plays a woman who falls in love with a husband with a wife and goes abroad alone to heal her wounds, and the man is also a director.
Kim Min-hee's acting skills are still there for all to see, especially her performance when she starred in "Miss", which is quite open and unreservedly shows her most beautiful side.
Compared with the "gossip" that director Hong Sang-so and Kim Min-hee came out of "Right Then Wrong", this story seems to have a self-deprecating flavor. At the award ceremony, the two generously held hands and walked through the red carpet, and Kim Min-hee openly showed love to Hong Shangxiu at the end of the speech, "Dedicate this award to you, I love you", directly causing 10,000 critical hits to the single dog.
The Film Award was won by Austrian actor Georg Friedrich, who played the story of a taciturn father who embarks on a journey together in the film Bright Night to improve his relationship with his increasingly estranged son. However, film critics have a very general evaluation of the film, believing that it is extremely dull and boring.
Finally, the complete list of winners of the 67th Berlin Film Festival will be sent, and each of them will take what they need after the resources are flowed.
Golden Bear for Best Film: Flesh and Spirit Director: Iltico Injetti (Hungary) Grand Jury Prize: Felicity Directed by Alain Gomis Alfred Bauer Prize: The Soil of bones Director: Agneska Holland (Poland) Best Director: Aki Kolysmaki (Finland) "The Other Side of Hope" Best Actress: Kim Min-hee (South Korea) "Alone by the Sea at Night" Best Actor: George Friedrich (Australia) For Bright Night Best Screenplay: Ordinary Woman Director: Sebastian Lellio / Gunzaro Massa (Chile) Outstanding Artistic Contribution Award: Anna, My Love Director: Karin Pete Netzer (Romania) Glashütte Original Documentary Award: Istiyad Ashbah (Ghost Hunting) Director: Raed andoni Gwff For Best Debut: Estiu 1993 Director: Carla Simón Golden Bear for Best Short Film: Cidade Pequena Director: diogo costa amarante Jury Silver Bear Short Film Award: en la pradera Director: esteban arrangoiz julien