Berlin (EFE) .- The brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, plus George Clooney, today opened the Berlinale with “Hail, Caesar!” A film out of competition Guts Hollywood the witch hunt with the characteristic humor of its directors, this time more loving it becomes the house brand.
“we can not be nostalgic, we do not live that time. But there is a kind of tender admiration for the Hollywood “admitted Joel Coen about a film 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, “Clooney told his side on the roles that tend to award the brothers -” actually cousins at the forefront “of individual teased witted, as the actor who plays . now
Clooney, in his role very, jokes alternated with compliments in the press conference: “are you flirting with me is? 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 Ethan Coen said! 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 Clooney is that of Josh Brolin, “a man for all” serving your 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” -movie in sandals or Romans and Christians, who do 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 room, plus all kinds of prototypes of genre cinema, Scarlett Johansson turned into siren in the Esther Williams.
the Coen and his team acted like the perfect clan to open the festival with an overdose of stardom in addition to those mentioned, they attended the event Tilda Swinton and Channing Tatun- with the sole judgment of the absence of Johansson.
a Clooney, among the most faithful visitors to the Berlinale since taking direction Dieter Kosslick, in 2001, was welcomed as a friend of the house.
the same happened with the Coen, directors of worship at a festival in which they presented “the Big Lebowski” in 1998 and “True Grit” in 2011, and also with Swinton, almost Clooney as assiduously as a contest whose jury chaired in 2009.
it was regretted that the Coens have tamed a little black humor. But it was definitely the film that needed Kosslick to open Berlinale whose competition will be more political cinema or committed than stars.
To compensate for shortcomings comes in handy to the festival the 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 part fellow Brit Clive Owen.
a team and the Coen be given the first red carpet at the opening gala of the night.
Tomorrow 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 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. EFE
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