On February 10, the filmmaker introduced his last feature film, “Peter Von Kant”, competing at the German Film Festival, whose health protocol was particularly reinforced.
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In February 2021, in the face of the epidemic surfing, the Berlinale, one of the oldest and prestigious film festivals in the world, had to be resolved to drop the flag and to keep in full online, before public projections finally took place in June. Its duo of codirpeckers, Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatinge, therefore had a revenge, and a lot of bad ulcees to conjure, with this 72 e that they held, until the end, Maintain in its usual physical device.
This one opened, Thursday, February 10, with the presentation of Peter Von Kant, the last feature of François Ozon. The jury, chaired by the American director of Indian origin Mr. Night Shyamalan (unbreakable, split, old), took place at the traditional exercise of the press conference with for the mistress idea of defending the hall obscure as a destination Natural cinema (French-Tunisian producer Said Ben Said has even spoke of “parish” for the “religious cinephile” he was). The author of sixth sense (1999) then declared on the red carpet that the holding of such a public event was for him as “a light at the end of the tunnel”.
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The 72 e began well started, but at what price, press side, for the festival-goers, of which it is to say that they had to show white paw! The organizers and the city of Berlin negotiated a health protocol called “2G +”, which is not far from confining the arsenal. To be admitted to the Festival area, the visitor must first provide the evidence with QR code that he has received three doses of VVID-19 vaccine and wear a mask to FFP2 standards. Access to projections is then not only on accreditation but also on presentation of a previously reserved ticket on the platform provided for this purpose (a novelty, which tends to become widespread to avoid queues).
And that’s not all. It was still necessary to the valiant accredited to produce a last document: a negative PCR test of less than twenty-four hours, to renew each morning under the small white tents which now mark the Potsdamer Platz, nervical center of the festival. It is equipped with all these precious sesames, a true battery of codes in all kinds, that he could hope to finally win his seat. As a condition, of course, that the day test does not see it positive, otherwise it is obliged to return to return to his room. We understand the small stomach ball that watches some, however, formed by the dedication of the teams that work to fluidize the device.
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