The Quirkiness of Kindness
Dieter Kosslick’s Departure after 18 years as festival topper continues to be the talk of the town and the opening film, ‘The Kindness of Strangers’ was more kinky than kindly, not the best choice, to say the least. (Haven’t I heard that song somewhere before?)
The opening film of the festival is a prestige slot and usually goes to a filmmaker with a track record of awards at Berlin. This year the director was Lone Scherfig of Denmark, a 59-year-old veteran of talky arty type films and a Golden Bear recipient in 2000 for her post-Dogma Danish success Italian for Beginners. Her latest film made in English as a Canadian Danish coproduction seemed to have all the ingredients of a winner with an elite international cast and Manhattan locations, but The Kindness of Strangers turned out to be an opening night dud panned by most reviewers,...
Dieter Kosslick’s Departure after 18 years as festival topper continues to be the talk of the town and the opening film, ‘The Kindness of Strangers’ was more kinky than kindly, not the best choice, to say the least. (Haven’t I heard that song somewhere before?)
The opening film of the festival is a prestige slot and usually goes to a filmmaker with a track record of awards at Berlin. This year the director was Lone Scherfig of Denmark, a 59-year-old veteran of talky arty type films and a Golden Bear recipient in 2000 for her post-Dogma Danish success Italian for Beginners. Her latest film made in English as a Canadian Danish coproduction seemed to have all the ingredients of a winner with an elite international cast and Manhattan locations, but The Kindness of Strangers turned out to be an opening night dud panned by most reviewers,...
- 2/14/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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