The brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, plus George Clooney, opened Thursday the Berlinale with “Hail, Caesar!” A film out of competition gutting the Hollywood witch hunt with the characteristic humor of its directors this time he comes more loving him to be the mark of the house.
“we can not be nostalgic, we do not live that time. But yes, it is a kind of tender admiration for the Hollywood “admitted Joel Coen on a movie that binds each of the topics of the great dream factory with its corresponding joke or irony.
“I submit that these two guys laugh at me,” he told his side George Clooney on the roles that tend to award the brothers – “actually cousins frontline” he joked. – from individual witted, as the actor who plays now
George Clooney , very much the alternated jokes with compliments in the press conference: “are you flirting with me? I am now a married man, “cut to a long question from a Polish journalist.
It also became more serious, to the insistent questions about the commitment of the film people to the plight of refugees, and said that this will be an issue to be addressed tomorrow at a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel
and took refuge in evasive when asked about his alleged inclination to communism -. “I will not answer that .. “- said in a conference before the media where more laughter and applause in the screening of the film for the press
were heard.” Hail, Caesar “is, as he said Ethan Coen , a tender film about the background of a Hollywood where everything is plasterboard and lies, unless the witch hunts of McCarthyism.
over the role of George Clooney is that of Josh Brolin, “a man for all” in the service of his hollywoodiano study should as soon resolve the pregnant actress, as the kidnapping of an actor by a group of writers turned to communism under the leadership of . Marcuse, in a villa in Malibu
Clooney plays the star than in Germany is called a “Sandalenfilm” – film or Roman sandals and Christian – that will not get rid of that uncomfortable footwear and other props throughout the film, and capturing two other extras also in sandals.
There they are also the actor-cowboy (Alden Ehrenreich) unable to utter a sentence if removed from the western to place it in a film lounge, plus all kinds of prototypes genre films like Scarlett Johansson turned into siren in the Esther Williams.
the Coen and his team acted like the addition to the above, attended the event Tilda Swinton and Channing Tatun – – perfect to open the festival with an overdose of stardom clan., the sole judgment of the absence of Johansson
a Clooney, among most loyal visitors to the Berlin address since taking Dieter Kosslick, in 2001, was welcomed as a friend of the house.
the same happened with the Coen, directors worship at a festival in which they presented “the Big Lebowski” in 1998 and “True Grit” in 2011, and also with Swinton, almost as assiduous as Clooney to a contest whose jury chaired in 2009.
he lamented that the Coens have tamed a little black humor. But it was definitely the film that needed Kosslick to open a Berlin in which competition will be more political cinema or committed than stars.
To compensate for shortcomings comes in handy at festival presence of Meryl Streep , who debuts as president of the jury and was received as a great lady is mixture of humor, intelligence and social commitment stage.
Streep garnered virtually all flashes in the presentation of the jury, which also forms part of his British counterpart Clive Owen .
a team and the Coen will be given the first red carpet at the opening gala of the night.
This Friday begins the parade of 18 would-be bears, which will open the Tunisian “Inhebbek Hedi” and they will follow a selection of films that includes both new names as consecrated.
Among the latter, it looks forward to the French André Téchiné, the Danish Thomas Vinterberg, Serbian Danis Tanovic and Iranian Rafi Pitts, director of the Franco-German-Mexican ” I am Nero, “only with the participation of Latin American competition.
(Source: EFE )
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