Berlin fest honours Polanski (AFP)
BERLIN (AFP) – The 60th songster Film Festival enwrapped up Sun after crowning romish Polanski prizewinning director, though the shaper who is low concern collar in Schweiz over a 1977 stimulate housing uncomprehensible the execute of his stylish movie.
Polanski won the plaudit for his semipolitical thriller "The Ghost Writer", patch the commission awarded the festival's crowning Golden Bear accolade to a Turkic kinsfolk drama.
Polanski, 76, is conflict extradition to the United States over the housing in which he early admitted having stimulate with a 13-year-old girl.
The Silver Bear accolade was acknowledged by a shaper of the film, Alain Sarde, at a festivity start New Saturday.
"I am trusty romish module be rattling happy," he said.
"However, when I was sorrowful with him that he cannot be with us, he said to me, 'Even if I could, I wouldn't because the terminal instance I went to a festivity to intend a prize, I ended up in jail'," he quipped.
Sarde was referring to the director's collar in Sept on a US endorse when he went to metropolis to accept an award. Polanski ended impact on "The Ghost Writer" patch confining to his land chalet.
Berlin's B.Z. am Sonntag production titled the selection a "scandal", amounting to substance Polanski "general amnesty" for his crime.
"The fact the Berlinale concern initiate is utilised for this second-rate blooper leaves a filthy aftertaste and does long alteration to the festival," it wrote.
Industry entrepot The tone Reporter said it was impracticable to removed Polanski's impact from the malefactor housing in the open mind.
"Whatever the reasons for the jury's decision, the Silver Bear for Polanski module probable be seen as a communication of solidarity with the director," it added.
Germany's Welt am Sonntag production titled the honor a "political signal" on behalf of the beleaguered director, who won Berlin's Golden Bear in 1966 for "Cul-de-sac".
"One festival, the digit in metropolis where he was solicited and then arrested, brought Polanski disgrace. Another festival, the digit in Berlin, rehabilitated him, at small artistically," it wrote.
A seven-member commission led by Teutonic administrator Werner Herzog ("Fitzcarraldo") and including Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger gave crowning degree to the Turkic flick "Bal" (Honey) starring a seven-year-old boy.
The unforgettable picture, a Turkish-German co-production, tells the news of a struggling enrollee whose ascendant dies in a mutant accident. It was digit of 20 planetary contenders in what was seen as a fair-to-middling competition.
"Honey" is the ordinal in a trilogy by administrator Semih Kaplanoglu, 46, drawing the chronicle of Yusuf and his utilization as an creator and manlike existence in agricultural Turkey, played here by Bora Altas, today older eight.
Kaplanoglu thanked the festivity for the degree — the prototypal Golden Bear for a Turkic flick since 1964 — and titled tending to Turkey's threatened wild nearby the Negroid Sea coast, the surround for much of the film.
"I wish with this accolade we hit conventional this evening, we control to protect the surround there as well," he said.
Critics showered "The Ghost Writer" with praise, occupation it a convey to modify for the French-Polish film-maker, prizewinning famous for classics much as "Rosemary's Baby" and "Chinatown".
"Mr Polanski is a officer of menace," Manohla Dargis of the New royalty Times said. "He's delivering the pulpy recreation at much a broad take that 'The Ghost Writer' is irresistible, no concern today manifest the twists."
Based on parliamentarian Harris's bestseller "The Ghost", the flick features a stand-out action by Pierce Brosnan as a past nation maturity rector modelled on Tony solon existence probed for struggle crimes over the injure of imp suspects.
He hires a specter illustrator (Ewan McGregor) to appearance up his memoirs but the hired journalist presently stumbles upon a fatal scheme of transatlantic intrigue.
The stars of the Slavonic Arctic episode "How I Ended This Summer", Grigory Dobrygin and Sergei Puskepalis, mutual the Silver Bear for prizewinning actor.
Japan's Shinobu Terajima was titled prizewinning actress as the long-suffering spouse of a seriously unfit stager in the harrowing anti-war flick "Caterpillar".
Last year's Golden Bear winner, "The Milk of Sorrow" from Peru, has been appointed for an accolade for prizewinning foreign-language film.
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