Berlin film fete kicks off with Binoche in Arctic role
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THE 65th Berlin film festival was getting under way yesterday with Oscar winner Juliette Binoche starring as an early 20th-century Arctic explorer in Spanish director Isabel Coixet’s period drama “Nobody Wants the Night.”
Set in the forbidding reaches of Greenland’s frozen tundra, the film is based on the true story of Josephine Peary, the headstrong wife of Robert Peary, an American adventurer who led several drives to reach the North Pole.
The French actress plays Josephine, who embarks on a dangerous trek in 1908 to find Robert (Gabriel Byrne) with the help of young Inuit woman Allaka, who she learns is her husband’s mistress.
Japan’s Rinko Kikuchi, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her work in the 2006 drama “Babel,” plays Allaka.
“Nobody Wants the Night” is one of 19 films vying for the festival’s Golden Bear top prize, to be awarded at a gala ceremony on February 14 by jury president Darren Aronofsky, the director of “Black Swan.”
It will be the seventh film Coixet has presented at the Berlinale, as the event is known, following features including “My Life Without Me” in 2003 and “Elegy,” the 2008 adaptation of a Philip Roth novel starring Spain’s Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley.
Last year saw Asian movies sweep most of the main awards including best picture and best actor for Diao Yinan’s cop thriller “Black Coal, Thin Ice.”
This time Jiang Wen will fly the flag for China with his latest, the 1920s gangster comedy “Gone with the Bullets”, while Japan’s Sabu will present his other-worldly love story “Chasuke’s Journey.”
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