Giant monoliths, mammoth dung.

Langer breath at the Berlin Film Festival: The Argentine director Adrián Biniez love enchanted with his film "Giant," Tommy Lee Jones chases in "In the Electric Mist" multiple murderer - and a French celebrity critic dies at Swedish competition contribute one thousand deaths.

 

Berlin - Rare were the heroes of the Berlinale such a long breath as this year. Especially if it is the bad guy in the world to bring to the track, put it an almost superhuman tenacity of the day. Just opening chased Clive Owen as an Interpol agent in "The International" an unscrupulous bankers around half the world, then traveled Kerry Fox in "Storm" as the prosecutor of UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, across Europe, a former Serbian General of his violence in the Balkan war to lead, and finally had Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Electric Mist" even a journey into the past applies to several convicted murderers.

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Jones as a cop in "In the Electric Mist" Here no one wants to be Rogue

In a world where brave, upright fighter in space and time Eilschritt traversed, no one wants to be Rogue.

Of mist, which gradually thin, to tell all three films, but the director Bertrand Tavernier takes this metaphor in his thriller "In the Electric Mist" literally. Right at the beginning of the film leaves his camera through the foggy swamps of Louisiana glide until they found a corpse covered. Meanwhile, the voice of a man to hear the voice of the greatest storytellers of contemporary cinema, of which we are by any mist and darkness by each lead, and even in the midst of the deepest moral darkness inside, most recently in the Oscar-winning thriller "No Country for Old Men "- it is the voice of Tommy Lee Jones. In Tavernier tells them at the beginning of stones on graves and of dead, not resting.

If you like, is "In the Electric Mist" a trilogy with the gloomy Gewaltepos "No Country for Old Men" and Jones' directing 'The three burials of Melquiades Estrada "(2005), by a spiritual journey into the realm of the dead narrates. In Tavernier, Tommy Lee Jones plays a village policeman, one day human bones from the swamp attracts. Suddenly he realized that this is the mortal remains of a man is that he more than 40 years ago before his own eyes saw die. Gradually, he notes that there are between the crime and then a series of murders that shocked even his district, a connection may be present. And one night when he was with his car off the road almost to slide into the swamp and the demolished car entsteigt, suddenly, he sees men who look like soldiers from the American Civil War.

In the rhythm of the southern states, in which each rush should be avoided because they immediately become violent outbursts welding leads, tell Tavernier and Jones from the novel by James Lee Burke wonderfully old-fashioned by relentless criminal intelligence work. It is a pleasure to drive as a spectator to this act, in which the reality and the awareness of the current heroes are often intertwined.

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Again and again, the camera rests on the weathered face of Tommy Lee Jones from a monolith of the cinema, which looks as if it were of wind and weather as well have been modeled by age and experience. No question: This man is the murderer, in any case act, because he has eternity on its side.

Given the Berlinale heroes, in the pursuit of their goals never let loose, it is not surprising that the most beautiful love story of the festival just made from the fabric is from the other thrillers are. In "Giant", which in Montevideo competition resulting contribution of the Argentine director Adrián Biniez observed a security guard (Horacio Camandulle) the employees of a supermarket. They work diligently, silly around or steal their work. As time zooms the guard more and more to a cleaning lady (Leonor Svarcas) approached, she barely made the electronic eye. He falls in love with the young woman and begins to follow her secretly. And he needs a damn long breath, until he felt her so close that he has enough courage to address it to: He created it until the last setting of the movie.

With lots of clever ideas and compelling Biniez laconic humor of the great feelings of ordinary people. By festival director Dieter Kosslick on the 9-clock-date laid, which the press has been more cinematic impositions in store, was "Gigante" surprised by the enthusiastic journalists beklatscht. Lukas Moodysson Swedish Competition entry "Mammoth," the prestige of 12 clock ran down, however, was gebuht. The global drama with Gael García Bernal in the role of a computer tycoons face in several narrative strands First and Third World together. The film acts as a European response to "Babel", only the Tower comes not through the basement also, because the foundations have been fudged.

The French critic Michel Ciment Pope groaned and puffed at the screening so incessantly, whistling as he made the very last hole.

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