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).
Of Gods and Men writer Etienne Comar’s directorial debut is a semi-fictionalized account of jazz legend Django Reinhardt’s escape from Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Reda Kateb stars as Django, and he “provides the story with a richness that the writing struggles to achieve on its own,” according to David Ehrlich of Indiewire. While the film address the plight of the Romani people, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw finds that the “fire, the attack and the thrilling energy of Django Reinhardt’s music are disconcertingly absent from this high-minded and heavy-footed movie.”
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