Berlinale slow enough for reflection

Despite the rush for tickets, this years' Berlin International Film Festival gives audiences a chance to slow down and reflect more deeply on political matters, the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes in praise: "Competing topics that flash by in the media before making room for the next sensation, but which are nevertheless of immense significance for every individual, return to the limelight at the Berlinale - not just in one but in several films that adopt different perspectives. Topics are addressed and reflected upon, creating a moment of deceleration in the festival that is highly attractive for audiences. Slowness has become a cherished asset; this applies to how we treat current events - or events that were current just a short while ago - as well as to the stories we tell each other. ... Perhaps today the time has finally come to tell an aesthetically true story of a woman's fate in the communist Germany of the 1980s, a woman who wants to leave and yet remains, making the reasons for both crystal clear."

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