The Berlinale rocks

"Never before has pop music had such a presence at an international film festival," declares Kai Müller, commenting on the Berlin International Film Festival which will open officially tomorrow evening with Martin Scorsese's film about the Rolling Stones. "The proximity of pop and cinema is based on a misunderstanding – namely the assumption that the two art forms could benefit from one another – particularly in times of economic crisis. ... Nonetheless, cinema cannot elude pop music. It has become the dominant language of culture. Whenever the globalised world of consumption seeks to clarify its own position, it finds illustrative material in pop. And not only with historical distance, but in the moment it manifests itself in fashion, language, behaviour – in all those strange signs with which young people deck themselves out. The heroes of this knowledge, which is still 'ungrasped', are the pop musicians."

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