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UPDATED with video: Six-time Golden Globe award nominee and, now, two-time winner Diane Warren was brief in her acceptance speech for Best Original Song – Motion Picture on Sunday, when the habitually soft-spoken composer got to the point for her work on “Io Si (Seen)” from Netflix’s The Life Ahead . She thanked director Eduardo Ponti, and the film’s star – and Ponti’s famous mother — Sophia Loren. She then said of the film, “It’s such a beautiful story about people who aren’t really seen and they see each other and they see each other through love. And that’s what inspired the song. So thank you again. Warren shares the award with Niccolò Agliardi and Laura Pausini , the latter of whom also spoke. Pausini thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press, saying, “Grazie Mille,” which translates to “a thousand graces” in Italian. “Io Si (Seen)” won in a field that also included nominees “Fight for You” by D’Mile, H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas from Judas and the Black Messiah ; … [Read more...] about Diane Warren And Laura Pausini Win Original Song Golden Globe For ‘Io Si (Seen)’ From ‘The Life Ahead’

Platonic love between virtual strangers helps ease the pain of grief in this tender first feature from Natalie Morales, who also stars opposite co-writer Mark Duplass. You have to wonder about the shelf life of all the compact film productions being stitched together around COVID pandemic restraints, particularly those in which the visual field is limited to computer desktops. When we finally escape the confinement of video calls for most of the social interactions outside our immediate circles, is anyone really going to hunger for the dulcet chimes of a Skype connection or the flat images of a Zoom meeting? That question aside, actress-turned-director Natalie Morales shows both resourcefulness and sensitivity in her touching first feature, Language Lessons , starring as a Spanish teacher drawn closer to her student in the wake of devastating trauma. Appearing alongside her co-writer Mark Duplass, Morales pulls off the difficult trick of fostering intimacy out of a long-distance … [Read more...] about ‘Language Lessons’: Film Review | Berlin 2021

Two fine actors volley for advantage across 90 minutes in the tastily insidious little melodrama Next Door (Nebenan) . Stepping behind the camera for the first time while also remaining in front of it, Daniel Bruhl ( Inglourious Basterds, Rush, Captain America: Civil War ) shows a sure grip on this mostly two-handed bar room encounter between an international film star (played by Bruhl himself) and a portly older fellow ( Babylon Berlin ’s Peter Kurth in a terrific turn) who knows far too much about the actor’s private life for comfort. This sharp-minded and engrossing drama of wits and secrets succeeds both in keeping the audience keen to know what’s really going on here and achieving lift-off for Bruhl’s directorial career if he seeks one. Related Story Berlin Review: 'Ted K' Delves Into World Of The Unabomber Berlin Film Festival competition, this is an unusual film in that you’d swear was originally written as a play; at least 80% of the action is … [Read more...] about Berlin Review: Daniel Bruhl Makes Directing Debut With ‘Next Door’

The Pygmalion myth gets a gender flip in I’m Your Man , the Berlin Film Festival competition entry from Germany’s Maria Schrader . Maren Eggert stars as Alma, a single anthropologist who agrees to live with a humanoid robot for three weeks as part of a trial testing period. Thomas ( Dan Stevens ) has been designed as Alma’s ideal partner, using algorithms based on her brain scans, her responses and research involving 17 million people. Related Story Berlin Review: Daniel Bruhl Makes Directing Debut With 'Next Door' Inspired by a short story by Emma Braslavsky, the screenplay — written by Schrader and Jan Schomburg — explores themes including identity, humanity, fantasy, self-love and happiness. If happiness is achieved, does it matter if the source is artificial? That’s the key question. In contemporary Berlin, human men aren’t a great option for Alma: her ex has moved onto a younger model and everyone else is paired up. When Alma wants Thomas to act … [Read more...] about Berlin Review: Anna Smith On ‘I’m Your Man’ – Int’l Critics Line

Lebanese filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige explore the importance of personal and historical memory in a drama bouncing between Montreal and Beirut. The tragedy of the Lebanese civil war extends far beyond the 1980s and into the third generation of a family resettled in Canada in the affecting drama Memory Box . It marks the first film in nine years from the award-winning team Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, whose work has ranged freely over feature films, docs, installations and performance art. Though Memory Box shows the sophisticated modernity of their artistic approach, it is also one of the most accessible of their films, thanks to a winning cast of fine actresses and an engrossing back-and-forth timeline that jumps from wartime Beirut under the bombs to the staid tranquility of modern-day Montreal. It bows in competition in Berlin, where the directors’ intelligent probing into our perception of the past should find appreciation. Among other things, … [Read more...] about ‘Memory Box’: Film Review | Berlin 2021