✔ Wang done. Think of Wang Quan’an’s slow-quirky competition title as Fargo in the steppe, or Zacharias Kunuk in Mongolia. The Chinese director has a promising track record, winning the Berlinale top honour, the Golden Bear in 2007 for "Tuya's Marriage” and a Silver Bear three years later for "Tuan Yuan.” “Öndög” (dinosaur egg, we learn) has the most amazing love scene --involving a camel, a wolf and a rifle-- and more feisty feminism than any New York indie. As the herder heroine replies to her suitor: “If I need a man I’ll let you know, but not today."
Friday, February 8. 2019
#BerlinaleBingo 2019: Day 2
✔ Wang done. Think of Wang Quan’an’s slow-quirky competition title as Fargo in the steppe, or Zacharias Kunuk in Mongolia. The Chinese director has a promising track record, winning the Berlinale top honour, the Golden Bear in 2007 for "Tuya's Marriage” and a Silver Bear three years later for "Tuan Yuan.” “Öndög” (dinosaur egg, we learn) has the most amazing love scene --involving a camel, a wolf and a rifle-- and more feisty feminism than any New York indie. As the herder heroine replies to her suitor: “If I need a man I’ll let you know, but not today."
To my chagrin will miss the other Wang, Xiaoshuai, at the end of the festival.
✔ In the German capital it's always a safe bet to score this one: Police were blocking the street (not as VIP escort, I asked) as I was making my way to the Ritz Carlton for a drink.
✔ More Can Con. Toronto artist Christina Battle dissects our social media world at the aptly named McLuhan Salon at the Canadian Embassy in her 4-screen exhibition as part of Berlinale Forum Expanded (where I ran I to Jesse Cumming again).
✔ My recommendation for a literally hidden gem: The creepy VR experience that accompanies Fatih Akin’s much anticipated horror splatter film The Golden Glove (review to follow after the premiere tomorrow). Think Soul Kitchen meets Tarantino. The installation is tucked away in the basement of Potsdamer Platz mall, between the dollar store and the drugstore. So well hidden that there are no lineups (yet)!
✔ The European Film Market EFM has new (non-)entrance policy to manage the steadily growing flow of industry types -- I tried to bypass the security wait line as my alter ego Kirsten Dunst but didn’t succeed. My German Films colleagues had to come get me for our meeting.
Uncanny, eh? Can't believe it didn't work. Nearly worked before at the Taj restaurant in Mumbai when a Bollywood producer came to my table to enquire whether I was "Kirsten Dunst's older sister."
Fields I should have added to score even faster:
✔ Run into Jesse Cumming
✔ Get famous by @Fluter Magazine adopting and adapting #BerlinaleBingo on Instagram
by Jutta Brendemühl
images, if not noted otherwise, by Jutta Brendemuhl.
cc by Georges Biard: Kirsten Dunst Cannes 2016; Jutta Brendemühl by Michelle Kay.
✔ In the German capital it's always a safe bet to score this one: Police were blocking the street (not as VIP escort, I asked) as I was making my way to the Ritz Carlton for a drink.✔ More Can Con. Toronto artist Christina Battle dissects our social media world at the aptly named McLuhan Salon at the Canadian Embassy in her 4-screen exhibition as part of Berlinale Forum Expanded (where I ran I to Jesse Cumming again).✔ My recommendation for a literally hidden gem: The creepy VR experience that accompanies Fatih Akin’s much anticipated horror splatter film The Golden Glove (review to follow after the premiere tomorrow). Think Soul Kitchen meets Tarantino. The installation is tucked away in the basement of Potsdamer Platz mall, between the dollar store and the drugstore. So well hidden that there are no lineups (yet)!✔ The European Film Market EFM has new (non-)entrance policy to manage the steadily growing flow of industry types -- I tried to bypass the security wait line as my alter ego Kirsten Dunst but didn’t succeed. My German Films colleagues had to come get me for our meeting.
Uncanny, eh? Can't believe it didn't work. Nearly worked before at the Taj restaurant in Mumbai when a Bollywood producer came to my table to enquire whether I was "Kirsten Dunst's older sister."
Fields I should have added to score even faster:
✔ Run into Jesse Cumming
✔ Get famous by @Fluter Magazine adopting and adapting #BerlinaleBingo on Instagram
by Jutta Brendemühl
images, if not noted otherwise, by Jutta Brendemuhl.
cc by Georges Biard: Kirsten Dunst Cannes 2016; Jutta Brendemühl by Michelle Kay.
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