Best & Worst Films at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival
One of international cinema's most prestigious annual events, the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (commonly known as the Berlinale) wrapped up this weekend, with Hungarian drama On Body and Soul earning the top award from a jury led by director Paul Verhoeven.
Below, we sample the reactions from film critics to that and other notable films premiering at this year's festival (including the upcoming X-Men film Logan, new features from Oren Moverman, Sally Potter, and Agnieszka Holland, and more).
According to THR, Sebastián Lelio’s follow-up to Gloria is “another work of searing empathy.” The best reviewed film of the festival and winner of the best screenplay award follows Marina (Daniela Vega, whom The Playlist calls “superb”), a transgender woman, as she struggles in the aftermath of her lover’s death. Guy Lodge of Variety claims, “Lelio has crafted perhaps the most resonant and empathetic screen testament to the everyday obstacles of transgender existence since Kimberly Peirce’s Boys Don’t Cry in 1999.”
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