Movie #1858 "Berlin, I Love You" --- This is one of those vignette-filled kind of films (like Paris, Je t'aime (see below for others) with each vignette taking place in the location --- here, Berlin --- and with its own cast and director and writer(s). It becomes a fluid piece when one actor of one scene walks in the background of the other --- and like here, for the ending, at least actor from each of the vignettes shows up at a concert taking place at the end of the picture and so there is a nice curtain call for each scene at the very end. I like the set up, and I really like seeing the location from different angles. Never having gone to Berlin, it was fun to see the various parts of the city in this way while watching a good, or not-so-good story being played out ---- if the story didn't work or didn't have much to it, at least the location was beautifully filmed! hah! I esp. liked the Helen Mirren story with Keira Knightly --- of course, with the two high-powered actors the scene worked better than others, but then I also liked one where a female uber driver picks up a guy unknowing to her who is in a run for his life --- and he leaves papers of importance in the uber when he gets taken from her cab. the stories varied in tone and action, but I found it to be a nice two hours to watch while I was exercising in the background. I didn't;t have to concentrate all that much and I was up for that. I'd give this a 3.5 out of 5. (and for those Noah Baumbach fans, he penned one of these (the Mickey O'Rourke one) and it was quite emotion-packed to me).
"BERLIN, I LOVE YOU" 2019 2 hours
Latest installment of the Cities of Love series (Paris, je t'aime / New York, I Love You / Rio, Eu Te Amo), this collective feature film is made of ten stories of romance set in the German capital.
As you can see, each of the 10 vignettes had its own cast, crew, writer and director.
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