Courageous Italians win Golden Bear

The Golden Bear, the top prize at the 62nd Berlinale film festival, went to the two brothers Paolo und Vittorio Taviani for their film Caesar Must Die on Saturday. The film is about how the inmates of a Rome prison stage a play by Shakespeare. The two filmmakers deserved to win, but the competition was pretty weak, comments the business paper Il Sole 24 Ore: "With a creative beating of wings that has revived a career which seemed headed towards a melancholy end, Paolo und Vittorio Taviani have won the Golden Bear. They deserve the prize, not just owing to the painful mediocrity of the other films but also because of the courage with which the two filmmakers once more struck out into unknown territory, combining their love of experiments with documentary filmmaking and reality with fiction. The result is less than perfect, the multiple layers of the film seem at times a little contrived, but it is without doubt an interesting film that lives up to the Berlinale's expectations of promoting new languages, new forms and new talents. And that is more than can be said of the other films, in particular the three German entries."

» more information (external link, Italian)
More from the press review on the subject » Film, » Germany, » Italy
All available articles from » Emanuela Martini

» To the complete press review of Monday, February 20, 2012