The seventy fifth Berlin Movie Pageant distributed awards. The Golden Bear acquired the movie “Desires” of the Norwegian director Dag Johan Heigerud. The award ceremony was held on February 22 on the Berlinal Palace. “Desires” is the final a part of the trilogy (earlier movies “Intercourse” and “Love”), wherein the director talks a few 17-year-old lady who falls in love with a French trainer in school. The jury Grand Prix acquired the movie “Blue Path” by Gabriel Mascaro, “Silver Bear” for the most effective directing was awarded to the Chinese language director Maine Ko for the portray “Life on Earth”. “Silver Bear” for the most effective script acquired Radu Zhude (“Continental 25”). Rose Burn acquired a reward for the most effective function (“If I had my legs, I’d have kicked you”), Andrew Scott (“Blue Moon”) was acknowledged as the most effective supporting function as the most effective function. Movie critic Anton Dolin sums up the outcomes of the pageant and talks concerning the profitable movie.
Within the anniversary competitors of the seventy fifth Berlin pageant there have been two movies beneath the identical name-“Desires”. Apparently, the coincidence ought to have been thought of an indication from above, one in all two ought to have defeated. My sympathies remained on the aspect of the stiff drama of the Mexican Michel Franco about unequal love. However each jury – the primary factor, beneath the management of the American director Todd Haines, and the Affiliation of Critics of FIPRES, – with out saying a phrase, opted for different “goals”, shot by Norwegian Dag Johan Heuerud. He acquired the Golden Bear.
The intriguing full identify of the movie – “Desires (Intercourse, Love)” is solely defined: earlier than us is the ultimate a part of the Heuerud trilogy launched throughout the 12 months. The premiere of “Intercourse” passed off eventually 12 months’s Berlinal, “Love” in Venice. Maybe the “goals” are certainly probably the most harmonious, balanced and complete movie out of three.
Movies are usually not related by plot or characters, however completely generally type and shut matters. In all circumstances, conversational drams assist to plunge into the on a regular basis lifetime of the Norwegian center class, which solves their private issues. The emphasised literature permits you to decide the creator of the creator with a half -forgotten phrase “sentimentalism.” That is after they continually converse (aloud or to themselves) and solely about one factor – about emotions.
Heugerud was 60 within the 12 months his trilogy was launched, however he has solely 5 full -length work, plus a number of works on tv. Within the first career, he’s a librarian who turned a screenwriter and author – all his 4 novels have been in Norway a sure success. The literature of his method to the creation of cinema doesn’t disguise Hyugurud. Quite the opposite, this can be a branded characteristic of his type, slightly, retrograde and nostalgic than progressive, however invariably heat. Regardless of this, the “goals” have been on the crossroads of the 2 principal matters highlighted by the stressed and battle Berlinal-2025.
The primary is a female view of actuality, expressed actually in all the things, beginning with the method of the brand new head of the Trisha Tatl pageant (for the primary time, the girl was headed by a lady). Three of probably the most expressive movies on the subject that Medusa wrote about have been acquired prizes: the inventive group of the Ice Tower Lucille Hadjikhalilovich, actress Rose Burn from “If I had legs, I’d dump you” Mary Bronstein and the creator “ Continental 25 »Rada Zhode, for the most effective situation, the place a mercilessly mocking evaluation of right now’s political Actuality is missed by the prism of feminine expertise.
The “Epistle” of Argentine, Ivan Fund, a black and white movie amam a few lady able to studying animal ideas (prize of the jury), and “Blue path”, Brazilian Gabrielle Mascaro about an adventurer who challenges the repressive coverage of the authorities relating to the aged (Grand Prix), are equally organized. . Within the “goals” of Heugerud, too, there are virtually no males, the entire intrigue is performed out by the daughter, mom, grandmother, writer, trainer of the lady and lover of the trainer.
The second by theme is the plot of rising up and the voice of an adolescent, all of the sudden breaking by a rumble of alarmed grownup voices. The movies of most contributors within the debut contest “Prospects” – and the nice half of the candidates for the “Golden Bear”. Certainly one of them, the Chinese language Ho, was awarded to the “silver bear” for the directing of the lengthy drama “Life on Earth” – the epic about a big household proven from the standpoint of an attentive boy.
The storyteller in “Desires” is a seventeen -year -old lady who’s experiencing love in a college trainer. Even the identify of each heroines are virtually the identical: Johanna and Johanna.
“Desires”, inseparably associated to the leitmotifs of intercourse and love, are whimsical. The away voice of an affordable, sensible and really possessing author’s expertise of a highschool scholar leads the viewer in an emotional labyrinth of touching and naive old flame; The artwork of the story till the witty ultimate scene continues to deceive expectations. On the similar time, the parallel plot unfolds – Grandmother Johanna, the well-known poetess herself, alongside along with her mom reads the textual content written by the lady and unexpectedly decides to supply it for publication. It isn’t identified how the non-public lifetime of a younger author will develop, however she is virtually supplied with an expert profession.
You may simply clarify the habit of the President of the Jury Berlinale-2025, the basic of the American Indie-Kino Todd Haines, to the modest Norwegian movie. He himself has lengthy explores related matters: the connection of his mom and daughter (“Mildred Pier”), the lady’s view of her actuality (“Peace filled with miracles”), the battle of generations (“Could Could”), the love relations of the 2 girls (“Carol “).
The curiosity of the pageant viewer, injured by political cinema, can be clear to the consolation of the Heigerud trilogy. In spite of everything, as confirmed in his “love”, even a most cancers of the illness will be made in Scandinavian cozy and candy cinema. In “Desires”, the creator manages to inform the story of a attainable seduction of a minor, with out going past the purple flags and with out going to the harmful territory. Was there love or simply appeared? Go know.
An necessary issue for the victory of the movie might be the intriguing biography of the Creator, for which filmmakers – as if not the primary exercise, however a pleasing pastime. Don’t low cost the accumulative impact of three work launched for a short while: they appear to appear to be chamber and native, collectively they offer the impression of a major assertion.
“Desires (Intercourse, Love)” – the primary movie from Norway for a few years, profitable at a major pageant: up to now this nation, well-known for its literature and visible arts, has inferior to neighbors – Danes and Swedes. Nonetheless, there isn’t any hint of the bergman’s philosophical melancholy, Trier’s tragic paradoxical or poetic irony of Roy Andersson within the work of Heugerud. That is an exemplary North European mainstream, whose heroes have reached the peaks of social well-being and now they will lastly take into consideration gender fashions, types of empathy, private boundaries. All of them are extraordinarily extraordinarily tender and fragile. However, then again, they will afford it, since they don’t have anything to fret about, there’s nothing to interrupt up-only about somebody’s random indivisence.
In these movies there’s not a gram of science fiction, and but they’re genuinely resemble utopia. A stupendous universe, the place the very European values have defeated and reign, within the existence of which the occasions of the previous couple of years are compelled to doubt. The extra causes to understand them isn’t in actuality, so a minimum of on the display.
