My Berlinale Minutes 2012, Sunday
"Electrick Children" is made by amazingly young (female) film-makers. The screenwriter works on her own experience as a girl raised in a Mormon family in Las Vegas.
The protagonist girl believes that she became pregnant by (illegally) hearing a pop song on a cassette player. There is no hint in the film how it may really have happened and in the Q&A the screenwriter said in answer to the question: "I decided to believe her." Very nice touch.
"A Prairie Home Companion" I'd always wanted to watch and it ran at the Berlinale as hommage to Meryl Streep. The film introduces to the very exotic, lost world of live radio shows in theaters. The radio moderator in the film is also a real radio moderator who did live shows, and I literally felt the somnambulistic routine of decades in his performance. Very intriguing.
The protagonist girl believes that she became pregnant by (illegally) hearing a pop song on a cassette player. There is no hint in the film how it may really have happened and in the Q&A the screenwriter said in answer to the question: "I decided to believe her." Very nice touch.
"A Prairie Home Companion" I'd always wanted to watch and it ran at the Berlinale as hommage to Meryl Streep. The film introduces to the very exotic, lost world of live radio shows in theaters. The radio moderator in the film is also a real radio moderator who did live shows, and I literally felt the somnambulistic routine of decades in his performance. Very intriguing.