Berlinale 2018: Isle of Dogs and more...
Monday, February 19, 2018 at 9:17AM Seán McGovern reporting from the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.
There's a friendly kind of brusqueness to Berliners. They're very unbothered. But the barely-contained excitement of my first Berlinale is almost matched by the huge passion the Germans have for film culture. Ten days and dozens of stunning venues. I'm here mainly to see all the films up for the Teddy Award but it wouldn't be a film festival if I wasn't in at least three screenings a day.
Opening Film
Isle of Dogs (dir. Wes Anderson, United Kingdom/Germany)
At first it seems like a basic choice – A famed US director with a star studded cast.
But take a moment to appreciate that Isle of Dogs is a multi-format animation, in dual languages, and about a historic animosity between humans and dogs, set in Japan, in the future. It's is a gorgeous testament to the kind of storytelling animation is capable of...