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| Chinese thriller wins best film and best actor prizes at Berlin festival | Chinese thriller wins best film and best actor prizes at Berlin festival |
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| Hollywood stars may have dominated the red carpets of the German capital over the last week and a half, but it was Chinese cinema that swept the board at the Berlin film festival’s awards ceremony on Saturday night. | Hollywood stars may have dominated the red carpets of the German capital over the last week and a half, but it was Chinese cinema that swept the board at the Berlin film festival’s awards ceremony on Saturday night. |
| Bai Ri Yan Huo (Black Coal, Thin Ice), a wry, noirish thriller set in northern China, won the jury’s Golden Bear award for best film, with the lead Liao Fan also taking home the award for best actor. A further Silver Bear, for best cinematography, went to Tui Na (Blind Massage), a drama with a largely blind cast set in a massage parlour in Nanjing. | Bai Ri Yan Huo (Black Coal, Thin Ice), a wry, noirish thriller set in northern China, won the jury’s Golden Bear award for best film, with the lead Liao Fan also taking home the award for best actor. A further Silver Bear, for best cinematography, went to Tui Na (Blind Massage), a drama with a largely blind cast set in a massage parlour in Nanjing. |
| Two auteurs of American independent cinema who had been mooted for the top prize had to be content as runners up. Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, which was filmed over the course of 11 years and had quickly turned into an audience favourite, was awarded the Silver Bear for best director, while Wes Anderson’s festival opener The Grand Budapest Hotel won the grand jury prize. | Two auteurs of American independent cinema who had been mooted for the top prize had to be content as runners up. Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, which was filmed over the course of 11 years and had quickly turned into an audience favourite, was awarded the Silver Bear for best director, while Wes Anderson’s festival opener The Grand Budapest Hotel won the grand jury prize. |
| Anderson’s film, starring an illustrious cast including Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray and Jeff Goldblum, was only one of several large ensemble films at a festival that also saw the European premieres of the extended edit of Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Vol 1 and George Clooney’s The Monuments Men. | |
| The latter, in particular, failed to live up to the hype and even drew a few boos from the audience. Compared to festivals in Cannes or London, the Berlinale has always been more inclined to select films for the international festival circuit than big box office draws. If anything, this year’s festival has further reaffirmed its identity. | The latter, in particular, failed to live up to the hype and even drew a few boos from the audience. Compared to festivals in Cannes or London, the Berlinale has always been more inclined to select films for the international festival circuit than big box office draws. If anything, this year’s festival has further reaffirmed its identity. |
| Earlier in the week, British director Ken Loach had accepted a lifetime achievement award at the festival, telling the audience: “I think we do live in darkening times, it is sometimes difficult to remember this. ... I think we do need a united Europe, we are in it together, we are Europeans and we have to find common cause.” | Earlier in the week, British director Ken Loach had accepted a lifetime achievement award at the festival, telling the audience: “I think we do live in darkening times, it is sometimes difficult to remember this. ... I think we do need a united Europe, we are in it together, we are Europeans and we have to find common cause.” |