Interesting to see the always impressive Bruno Ganz starring in two films in this year’s festival. The first, Sophie Heldman’s Colours in the Dark, is a soberly intense Bergman-esque drama about a grandfather struggling to come to terms with retirement, prostate cancer and his wife's (Senta Berger) discovery of a personal secret. The film was a surprise box office success with art house audiences in Germany – surprising because the story goes into the kind of dark places not often associated with commercial successes.
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