(Berlin Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful – Photos are published courtesy of the Berlinale)

Let the show begin! There are four proposals of breeders COMPETITION the Berlinale weekend.

After the incursion of the Argentine cinema with the fugitive (The Intruder) Argentina / Natalia Meta Mexico in the World to which we have assigned it a good score 3,25 for the emotional charge transmitted (REVIEW) the weekend has been the subject of film Italian with I wanted to hide Giorgio Rights in the World with Elio Germano. The actor, although directed has abdicated (just above sufficiency score 2,75), It gave an excellent interpretative test of famous artist LIGABUE. Again Elio Germano demonstrates its ability to undress and get into character powerfully. He must be a thank you for letting us know the intimate part of the artist Ligabue and his frailty with which he has had to face in his troubled life. A talented but life has given him the affection of those who knew him. What it lose the viewer are the phrases in the narrow Emilian dialect cry softly!

The American cinema is represented by an anomalous western flavor naif (vote under the sufficiency 2). It is First Cow USA Kelly Reichardt film in the First International which tells us in Marina (REVIEW).

Finally the Old Continent with the French cinema The salt tears (The Salt of Tears) France / Switzerland Philippe Garrel in World unconvincing (vote under the sufficiency 2). The director would like to impress with the choice of black and white and with a style that refers to Truffaut's film with voiceover narration. Unfortunately, "The Bell'Antonio" of the story is the most obnoxious.

Among the artists Logann Antuofermo, Oulaya Amamra, André Wilms, Louise Chevillotte, Souheila Yacoub.

And so to the new section that presents Carlo Chatrian as a platform to explore different ways of telling stories. And 'section Encounters that offers us this weekend two films between them so different. The first Malm Area Romania / Serbia / Switzerland / Sweden / Bosnia / North Macedonia di Cristi Puiu in the First World (Frédéric-con Richard Schulz, Agathe Bosch, Diana Sakalauskaité, Marina Palii, Ugo Broussot, Stephen Teglas) It lasts more than three hours to quibble in a living room of the high Russian bourgeoisie on topics such as War and Peace. It saves us the fact that it acted in French because a dialogued films over three hours puts a strain on the resistance of a cinephile. And then what about a disquisition between people than ever are going to make the War. It 'an insult to poor people instead was forced last century to be cannon fodder. A pamphlet that points to the Director of that emerging class as the cause (with good reason) the tragedies that followed the Great War before and after World War II ^. Our score is 1.

Worst another proposed film work before with a score of -1 He loses the viewer. It is Ducts one coproduzione France / Colombia / Brazil Camilo Restrepo in the World. Two star in this incomprehensible narrative from pretentious symbolism: Luis Felipe Lozano and Fernando Usaga Higuita. He wants to be something valuable but can not. To counters on the preciousness it seems to me that a work should strike the soul, but not this time fails.

Let's move on to the selection of films out of competition Berlinale Special that had great success with an exceptional cast to Berlinale Special Gala at Frederick City Palace where it was presented in World Premiere with Johnny Depp, Hiroyuki Sanada, Minami, Bill Nighy Minamata Andrew Levitas in a film about social commitment of LIFE magazine W War photographer. Eugene Smith in 1971 unmasks a powerful Society of poisoning with mercury citizens are a Japanese city of Minamata. We do not hesitate to give a score otttimo (3,5) to film.

With the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia-Louis Dreyfus, Octavia Spencer, Mel Rodriguez, Kyle Bornheimer, Lena Waithe, Ali Wong wears a story borrowed from Aladdin's lamp in which the two brothers Ian and Barley most unlucky one other face life. Again the score is 3.

Also out of competition at Berlinale Special at Haus der Berliner Festspiele the expected Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke presenting a documentary about his hometown Fenjang during the Cultural Revolution to the title Yi Zhi You Dao Hai Shui Bian Lan (Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue) People's Republic of China Jia Zhang-ke First World. The director will be a guest of the Talents and we will make an account. Compared to other works such as Still Life in this case when you return to the sufficiency (2,5). Finally always Out of competition to Berlinale Special Gala at Frederick City Palace a Russian film Persian Lessons also produced by Germany / Belarus Vadim Perelman in World with Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eiding, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch, Alexander Beyer, David Schütter, Luisa-Celine Gaffron. During the Second War (1942) France consumes yet another trgedia on Holocaust. The protagonist to survive literally invents a language: Farsi to please the Nazi dreams (Lars Eiding) at the head of the concentration camp. It could be a significant history but does not reach the sufficiency (2)

Let's move on to the section Panorama where we find the most interesting films, of which we have already enjoyed yesterday's opening film THOUSAND AND ONE.

Today we start with a thriller that receives our applause with a score of 3,25.

It is Meat & Blood (Wildland) Denmark Jeanette Nordahl in World / First work

Con Sandra Guldberg Kampp, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Joachim Fjelstrup, Elliott Crosset Hove, besir Zeciri

After the death of his mother in a car accident, the young Ida is entrusted to aunt. In the new life with cousins, a loving family, where, however, soon it emerges that family members are engaged in criminal activities. The well-aware character to be finished in the wrong family can not break away from them. The dilemma between ethics and filial love that leaves you breathless.

The other film is about family and search the same. It is city ​​Bird (Shine Your Eyes) Brazil / France Matias Mariani in the World to which we assign a score of 3. with O. C. Ukeje, Chukwudi Iwuji, Indira Birth, Paulo Andre, Ike Barry. In the family of his older brother Ikenna Amadi musician has always had a prominent place. To please his mother Amadi from Nigeria went to the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo, but he can not find it although many tracks lead him to him. Cidade Pássaro is an exploration of their IO that operates on multiple levels. From Mongolia Uisenma Borchu in World presents his last work where a young Mongolian research rooted abandoning coodità of Western life to find the essence of life.

black milk (Black Milk) Germany / Mongolia Uisenma with Borchu

Gunsmaa Tsogzol, Uisenma Borchu, Terbish Demberel, Franz Rogowski. The Mongolian people of the endless steppes feeds on milk. Milk in the Western metropolis is used as a dermatological product. In the second semi biopic Uisenma Borchu, a young woman is looking for his roots and finds an idiosyncratic and radical sensuality that violates not only the Mongol conventions but also those of the supposedly more liberal West.

There has struck deep in the last film about family. It is father (Father) Serbia / France / Germany / Croatia / Slovenia / Bosnia and Herzegovina Srdan Golubović presented in the First World which is a very good score (3,5). Nikola is just a father which for a number of circumstances the two children by social services are subtracted who decided that it was not able to offer them an environment of decent life. The bureaucracy and the power seemingly takes over on Humanity. But as a modern Nikola Jacob starts walking to file a complaint in Belgrade. A moving story of inequality.

After so many films we present the other section of the Berlinale FORUM where with a little 'luck, one can encounter some gem. In fact of the five films viewed on 35 Program two seem worthy of mention. The first with a score above the sufficiency (3) is Ping jing (The Calming) SONG Fang from China in World also produced by director Jia Zhang-ke. The minimalist story of a Chinese artist Q Xi filmmaker who travels to Japan to present his last performance. For our tastes western narrative is slow, but the same title leads us to reflect. The images of the metropolis in the background of a long viaduct crossing Hong Kong are reflected on the bay with the thundering noise that aircraft they land on the nearby airport of the same name. The second film Economy Germany Losmann Carmen in First World is a documentary about the world economy that deserves praise (vote 2,5) for dry narration of a group of journalists who questions the ephemeral power of money with hi-tech images to demonstrate the lack of soul.

The other three films do not pass the test, and it is gorod usnul (In Deep Sleep) Maria Ignatenko of Russia in the First World which is airtight and say a copyright trial without specific outlets (1,5) followed by the Italian Home of love Luca Ferri , story of a trans opening words on White with a prostitute saved from stoning by Jesus that nothing to do with the story told. Finally Israel The Viewing Booth Ra'anan Alexandrowicz of a first international perception of the Arab-Israeli conflict in a repetition compulsion.