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).
Călin Peter Netzer returned to Berlin after winning the Golden Bear for Child’s Pose in 2013. Shuffling time to chronicle the love between Ana (Diana Cavallioti) and Toma (Mircea Postelnicu), this romantic drama is “made undramatic by an overly complicated structure,” according to THR’s Deborah Young. But Jonathan Romney of Screen Daily finds it to be “an intellectually complex, emotionally harrowing dissection of the travails of a long-term relationship.”
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