Berlinale thumbs its nose at the US judiciary

The big European film festivals are increasingly the stage for political gestures, as amply demonstrated by this year's Berlinale, writes the daily Delo: "Giving the Silver Bear for best director to Roman Polanski on Saturday evening was a political gesture, and even more a collegial gesture. From a film perspective Polanski's film The Ghost Writer doesn't justify such a prize in the least. And anyway it's pretty odd to award the prize for best director to this 76-year-old who has proven his worth hundreds of times. But if it's hard to imagine that the great Polanski, who because of his house arrest in Switzerland was unable to make an appearance, would come away empty-handed, it's even harder to imagine that the jury of one of the biggest European film festivals could let a chance go by to cock a snook at the US judiciary."

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