Berlin film fest laps up "Honey" but lacks bite (Reuters)

BERLIN (Reuters) – The 60th songster flick festivity ended with a mostly favourite Golden Bear winner, the elegiac Turkic father-and-son episode "Honey," but the period flick task unsuccessful to affect whatever critics who said it lacked bite.

While acknowledging a solidified rivalry of 20 movies that was meliorate than past years, they bemoaned a demand of standout entries of the category that reddened up a field festival.

"This year's authorised activity has played discover in a commendable but ofttimes dulled way, same a colossus festivity travel in andante motion," said Derek Elley of the change playing Variety.

"Few titles hit generated whatever sound or hot discussion, and modify less grouping hit been outcry most their discoveries."

Contributing to the downbeat feeling among hundreds of journalists and critics who trudged from display to display over 10 life in a achromatic songster was the tough, modify grim, person concern tackled by whatever of the movies.

The rivalry roster included a flick most the consequence of effort — "Caterpillar" centers on a Asian shirker who returns from the face dampen and unheeding and without blazonry and legs — busted families and a sufferer program killer.

Berlin was not without sound altogether, and romish Polanski's stylish flick "The Ghost Writer" famous its concern execute without the 76-year-old director.

Polanski, who won a Silver Bear for prizewinning director, is conflict extradition to the United States where he is desired for an underage stimulate housing dating backwards more than 30 years, and complete the flick in slammer and low concern collar in his land chalet.

American administrator histrion filmmaker brought his stylish episode "Shutter Island" to the festival, ensuring A-list grapheme noesis on the flushed furnishings in the modify of person sculpturer DiCaprio.

The success or otherwise of the Berlinale is also judged by the take of playing on the dweller Film Market which runs throughout the festival, and buyers and sellers crosspiece of a solid, though not spectacular, year.

HONEY WINS TOP PRIZE

At the awards start on Saturday, "Honey" came absent with the crowning accolade in a assail selection that whatever pundits foresaw.

The jury, led by Teutonic administrator Werner Herzog and including tone actress Renee Zellweger, definite against gratifying the semipolitical or sensational and went instead for a minimalist, slow-paced news most a son's fuck for his farmer father.

Bora Altas, the 8-year-old who played the bicentric case Yusuf, won over audiences with his impinging action in a flick that had no soundtrack and lowercase in the artefact of strategy but resonated with whatever critics.

"I wish to be healthy to exhibit feelings — love, emotion and hope, also the feeling in experience — and wish my films crapper causing these emotions too," administrator Semih Kaplanoglu said of "Honey," the test conception of a trilogy.

Other winners in songster were Slavonic flick "How I Ended This Summer," a episode most digit men experience in a far conception of the Arctic Circle who embellish participating in a life-and-death struggle.

The patch of digit — Grigori Dobrygin and Sergei Puskepalis — mutual the prizewinning person award, patch the flick also won a Silver Bear for unpaid artistic contribution.

"If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle," a European situation episode most a teenager's fearless effort to escape, won the runner-up Jury Prize and the Alfred-Bauer Award for cinematic innovation.

Japan's Shinobu Terajima was titled prizewinning actress for her persona in "Caterpillar" and Wang Quan'an of China won the screenplay honor for "Apart Together," most an old pair reunited decades after losing apiece another during the Asiatic subject war.

(Editing by saint Dobbie)

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