The festival opens with a real coup: “Hail Caesar” is not only a furious tribute to the old Hollywood. The film also refers to the problems of the industry. And has George Clooney.
The Chinese New Year this year fell on the 8th February where, according to the Chinese calendar, the year of the fire monkey began – and who now wonders what that has to do with the Berlinale, which the rightly asks
on the first day of the festival. if it is necessary to bridge the hours until the opening gala in the evening, and the red carpet at Potsdamer Platz quite lonely and non addressed the Berlin drizzle soaks the craziest desires are expressed normally.
the quirky Coen brothers
So, for example, the journal Hollywood reporter , which has its editorial published on football manpower from Los Angeles to Berlin to produce their daily festival edition, likely in the first edition, whether the Berlinale had to be moved in the future due to the Chinese New Year.
because the Chinese their New Year is holy because the Chinese but just the same case, the United States to overtake as the most powerful film nation in the world, and because of that very New year is not this year, but often overlaps with the Berlinale. Well.
Berlinale program more than Hollywood
Hollywoodopulenz and author cinematography: with the opening film the makers a big coup. What the Berlinale also has to offer – a view.
As in the evening after a rather jolly press conference the actor George Clooney, Josh Brolin and Tilda Swinton with their star-feet aufhübschten wet red carpet, it was finally getting started with the festival.
and with a very wonderful opening film, the presented the actors with their directors Joel and Ethan Coen. For the two filmmakers the adjective is cranky still quite friendly description.
Before the premiere, they gave in a salon of the Hotel de Rome, interviews, where they made their interlocutors a bit nervous because the Elder (Joel) itself did not move in his chair and stood up, the younger (Ethan) every two minutes and fidgeting walked around his brother and the interviewer. But to a
Men occasion more. With hat
Now it is about its glorious Hollywood grotesque “Hail, Caesar!” go, that was last night shown in the Berlinale Competition out of competition and opened the festival.
The film is set in the sparkling show the world of the fifties, it is smoked and drank around the clock, and when an urgent is problem, to rush with his hand on his hat to a telephone set.
the main character called Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), and operates at a fictitious movie studio called Capitol as “fixer”. That means: If there is a problem, then he has ran. A starlet is found dead of night in a erotic compromising situation? Eddie Mannix brings home her and puts the cops a few bills to make them forget the incident. A star has gone on the lash somewhere on the sunny west coast lost? Eddie Mannix brings him home, nüchtert him out and puts the cops a few bills to make them forget the incident.
A poignant reflection of the 50s in Hollywood
In the early fifties was Hollywood in a phase of late Roman decadence. The major studios kept their actors, directors and writers like slaves, given what movies to make them and how they had to behave private, so as not to jeopardize the image that had been devised for them.
television made to be a great competitor in the cinema more and more households broadly, the politicians went on hunting Communists, the Cold war threatened to become a hot. Why the studios in their hubris braced always opulent monumental films, with gigantic sets and whole armies of extras to distract viewers from the TV box in the living room and the worldly concerns.
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