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16-02-2025
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Berlin Film Festival Day 3: What You Need to Know
Day 3 at the Berlin Film Festival was chilly and very pretty in pink. Timothée Chalamet fired up the Berlinale on Friday by donning a cotton candy-colored hoodie and matching tank top. The 'A Complete Unknown' star thoroughly charmed festival attendees. Variety's Ramin Setoodeth writes about the Chalamet effect and what it means as film awards season heads into the final stretch. Where Chalamet goes, 'the entire scene is electric, and it caps off one of the most gonzo best actor campaigns in Oscar history,' Setoodeh observes. More from Variety Czech Filmmakers Hope to Ride 'Wave' of New Audiovisual Law Toward More Breakout Hits Les Films d'Ici, France Télévisions Board 'Who We Are' (EXCLUSIVE) Hungary's Filmmakers See Local Box Office Success With Genre Pics and Romantic Comedies Variety's Nick Vivarelli writes about the poignant moment that His documentary 'A Letter to David' is his way of processing the fact that his friend David Cunio –- who starred in his first feature 'Youth' –- is one of the more than 250 hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. As for why the film doesn't include footage of graphic violence, Shoval says, 'I wanted to go beyond it and try to show the people that were dealing with that and what happened to them as human beings. And try to convey this emotional moment in their life.' Variety will be on the ground in Berlin through the duration of the festival, which began Feb. 13. Follow our coverage and film reviews via — all of our news coverage can be found here and reviews found here — and through our five show daily print editions published at the festival from Feb. 13-17. Each festival daily issue is . And please click here to subscribe to s free Markets and Festivals newsletter. Here are highlights from Day 3 at the Berlinale: Timothée Chalamet explains how playing Bob Dylan influenced his personal views on politics and activism. Rebecca Lenkiewicz explains why she moved from writing to directing with her latest feature film 'Hot Milk.' Isaac Hernández has fancy feet and a sense of obligation about the ballet dancer character he plays opposite Jessica Chastain in 'Dreams.' After a lull, the Czech Republic is seeing film and TV production activity rebound. Catalan filmmakers strut their stuff at the Berlinale with documentaries and features. Why genre fare and rom-coms are hot at the Hungarian box office. Dominican filmmaker Nayibe Tavares-Abel tells a personal story in the documentary 'Colossal' that also reflects the nation's electoral unrest. Review: 'After Dreaming' Review: Review: 'Living the Land' Review: ' More coverage can be found here: at Berlin Film Festival (Pictured top: Timothée Chalamet) Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Grammy Predictions, From Beyoncé to Kendrick Lamar: Who Will Win? Who Should Win? What's Coming to Netflix in February 2025
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15-02-2025
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Berlin Film Festival Day 3: What You Need to Know
Day 3 at the Berlin Film Festival was chilly and very pretty in pink. Timothée Chalamet fired up the Berlinale on Friday by donning a cotton candy-colored hoodie and matching tank top. The 'A Complete Unknown' star thoroughly charmed festival attendees. Variety's Ramin Setoodeth writes about the Chalamet effect and what it means as film awards season heads into the final stretch. Where Chalamet goes, 'the entire scene is electric, and it caps off one of the most gonzo best actor campaigns in Oscar history,' Setoodeh observes. More from Variety Czech Filmmakers Hope to Ride 'Wave' of New Audiovisual Law Toward More Breakout Hits Les Films d'Ici, France Télévisions Board 'Who We Are' (EXCLUSIVE) Hungary's Filmmakers See Local Box Office Success With Genre Pics and Romantic Comedies Variety's Nick Vivarelli writes about the poignant moment that His documentary 'A Letter to David' is his way of processing the fact that his friend David Cunio –- who starred in his first feature 'Youth' –- is one of the more than 250 hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. As for why the film doesn't include footage of graphic violence, Shoval says, 'I wanted to go beyond it and try to show the people that were dealing with that and what happened to them as human beings. And try to convey this emotional moment in their life.' Variety will be on the ground in Berlin through the duration of the festival, which began Feb. 13. Follow our coverage and film reviews via — all of our news coverage can be found here and reviews found here — and through our five show daily print editions published at the festival from Feb. 13-17. Each festival daily issue is . And please click here to subscribe to s free Markets and Festivals newsletter. Here are highlights from Day 3 at the Berlinale: Timothée Chalamet explains how playing Bob Dylan influenced his personal views on politics and activism. Rebecca Lenkiewicz explains why she moved from writing to directing with her latest feature film 'Hot Milk.' Isaac Hernández has fancy feet and a sense of obligation about the ballet dancer character he plays opposite Jessica Chastain in 'Dreams.' After a lull, the Czech Republic is seeing film and TV production activity rebound. Catalan filmmakers strut their stuff at the Berlinale with documentaries and features. Why genre fare and rom-coms are hot at the Hungarian box office. Dominican filmmaker Nayibe Tavares-Abel tells a personal story in the documentary 'Colossal' that also reflects the nation's electoral unrest. Review: 'After Dreaming' Review: Review: 'Living the Land' Review: ' More coverage can be found here: at Berlin Film Festival (Pictured top: Timothée Chalamet) Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Grammy Predictions, From Beyoncé to Kendrick Lamar: Who Will Win? Who Should Win? What's Coming to Netflix in February 2025
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15-02-2025
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Rebecca Lenkiewicz on Moving From Writing to Directing With ‘Hot Milk': ‘I'd Been Feeling a Sadness in Giving Scripts Away'
There are numerous first time directors at this year's Berlinale, but few come with the sort of indie film credits on Rebecca Lenkiewicz's resume. The British playwright and screenwriter had worked on the script for Pawel Pawlikowski's Oscar-winning 'Ida' alongside the director, on 'Disobedience' with Sebastián Lelio and on 'Colette' with Wash Westmoreland, before going it alone to turn Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey's book about their industry-shaking Harvey Weinstein expose into the script that would become Maria Schrader's 'She Said' in 2022. More from Variety Berlin Competition Entry 'The Blue Trail' Reveals First Clip, Gabriel Mascaro Talks Ageism in Cinema: 'Elderly Bodies Are Tied to a Nostalgia For Life' (EXCLUSIVE) Czech Filmmakers Hope to Ride 'Wave' of New Audiovisual Law Toward More Breakout Hits Les Films d'Ici, France Télévisions Board 'Who We Are' (EXCLUSIVE) But with 'Hot Milk,' which bowed at the Palaste on Friday, she moved closer to the camera and made it her directorial debut. Adapted (by Lenkiewicz) from Deborah Levy's book and shot in Greece, the story is set under the hot Spanish summer and follows Sofia, a young woman (Emma Mackey) in a co-dependent relationship with her wheelchair-bound mother Rose (Fiona Shaw) as the two travel to a sun-soaked seaside town to meet an enigmatic healer (Vincent Perez) who may just have a miracle cure. But while there, Sofia meets the free-spirited yet damaged Ingrid (Vicky Krieps) and find herself falling wildly in love. 'It's incredibly intense,' notes Lenkiewicz. 'And then she goes to Greece to see her father, who she hasn't seen for years and it all just kind of explodes.' Speaking to Variety, the writer-turned-writer/director discusses why it felt like the right time to make the leap and being 'blessed' with a 'triptych of women' on screen. Am I right in thinking that you were originally asked to adapt the book 'Hot Milk' before you came on board as director as well? Actually, I went into the meeting and, I hadn't really planned to say this, but I said I would adapt it if I could direct it. Christine Langan took that in. I'd been feeling for a long time a sadness in giving scripts away. And especially with this book, it felt incredibly female. I could see it. I could feel it. So I just really wanted to do it. I left that with Christine and she came back to me and said: 'Yeah, let's try.' Was it something particular about 'Hot Milk' or simply that it was the time to direct? I think it was both. But I think it was also how fragile and robust the female heroine was — and I felt I could relay that well. I connected to each of the characters. I could also see the casting. So I just felt very strongly that I wanted it to stay with me. And it wasn't anything to that you got to shoot in the sunshine in Greece? No. Ha! Greece was amazing, but it was 45 degrees (113F). The Greek team sort of said to us, you can't shoot in August, it's crazy. And we thought, perhaps they're being a bit dramatic. And we went there and there was wildfires. But it was the most incredible time and the most incredible place to shoot. Were you hands on with the casting? You've got a mighty trio in Emma Mackey, Vicky Kreips and Fiona Shaw. With that triptych of women I'm so blessed. They're just amazing actresses and incredible women on set. And each of them are quite different actresses. So it was interesting to see the different processes coming together. So how was your first experience directing? It was wonderful. I loved it. But only because everyone around me was so incredibly supportive. Technically, they helped me. I had a brilliant relationship with Christopher Blauvelt, the cinematographer. The producers guided me beforehand — Christine Langan and Kate Glover were amazing. I just had this body of artists and crew who were just so encouraging and supportive. I knew what I wanted to make and I could see it and feel it and hear it. So everyone was on board with that. Did it give you any newfound respect for directing? I spoken to a lot of actors who have gone behind the camera and a lot of them said that they came of it realising just how much the director has on their plate. It did. Just the amount of responsibility, that you're carrying from day one to the end, is huge. Vincent Perez is a brilliant director and an actor in our film. On the last day of the shoot, I said 'We're finished.' And he said, 'No, you haven't finished.' But it's true — there's so many processes of the edit. And now we've got the birth to come. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Grammy Predictions, From Beyoncé to Kendrick Lamar: Who Will Win? Who Should Win? What's Coming to Netflix in February 2025
