Berlinale Reminiscence (+ 2020 festival episode part 1)

It's Berlinale time. Our annual sojourn to our favourite European Film Festival is one of the highlights of the year, and the programme looks intriguing with a host of big names in arthouse cinema showing their latest work. This is the first of a two-part episode in which we bring our thoughts to bear on the big competition entries, as well as fiction and documentary films from other sections of Berlin's extensive programme. We also interview various critics in the city, not only about their festival picks but also about any emergent themes of this year's event. Wild mushroom picking, toxic masculinity and signature central sequences were just some of the obvious motifs. 

Dario and Neil see a film together (Hang Songsoo's wonderful The Woman Who Ran) at the festival for the first time, and they ruminate, as usual, on all aspects of the experience. Please enjoy.

Thanks so much to the following critics for giving up their time. Please check out their writing and share/support it on your networks:

Joseph Owen - https://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2020/02/24/berlin-film-festival-2020-first-cow-review/

Savina Petkova - https://savinapetkova.contently.com/

Alex Billington - https://www.firstshowing.net/

Serena Scateni - https://vaguevisages.com/2020/02/25/berlinale-2020-review-hong-sang-soos-the-woman-who-ran/

The films discussed in this episode are:

First Cow - Kelly Reichardt

The Salt of Tears - Philippe Garrel

Undine - Christian Petzold

Never Rarely Sometimes Always - Eliza Hittman

Pinocchio - Matteo Garrone

Little Girl - Sébastien Lifshitz

Malkkrog - Cristi Puiu

Shirley - Josephine Decker

The Assistant - Kitty Green

Mogul Mowgli - Bassam Tariq

The Woman Who Ran - Hong SangSoo

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