now on bbc news, talking movies: berlin film festival special. hello from berlin. i m tom brook, and welcome to talking movies. in today s programme, highlights from the berlin international film festival. over 11 days, some 280 films are shown, with big names from the world of cinema gathering here in the german capital. we sat down with sean penn, whose documentary superpower on president zelensky was one of the festival s big attractions. british acting royalty was in town, with dame helen mirren portraying israeli prime minister golda meir. cate blanchett, oscar nominated for her performance in tar, walked the red carpet, as did steven spielberg, at the festival for a lifetime achievement award. and we look at queer cinema in berlin, which was making quite an impact. berlin has a long history of embracing political cinema. it is an avowedly political film festival. and this year, because the first anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine took place during the festival,
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that the suicide attack that killed 22 people might have been avoided. now on bbc news, talking movies: berlin film festival special. hello from berlin! i m tom brook, and welcome to talking movies. in today s program, highlights from the berlin international film festival. over 11 days, some 280 films are shown with big names from the world of cinema gathering here in the german capital. we sat down with sean penn, whose documentary superpower on president zelensky was one of the festival s big attractions. british acting royalty was in town with dame helen mirren portraying israeli prime minister golda meir. cate blanchett, oscar nominated for her performance in tar, walked the red carpet, as did steven spielberg, at the festival for a lifetime achievement award. and we look at queer cinema in berlin, which was making quite an impact. berlin has a long history of embracing political cinema in fact, it is an avowedly political film festival and this year, because the fir
berlinale have had. it s a romeo and juliet story and it s got peter dinklage playing a composer who s married to anne hathaway s therapist. hoover stops whirring. no, turn it back on. hum.. b flat. and then their life goes awry when he starts having an affair with marisa tomei, who plays a tugboat captain. actually, i thought it was quite a sweet film and i enjoyed it, and i actually spoke to anne hathaway, who produced the movie, and to rebecca millerwho, of course, directed it. love and hate are the great motivators and the great changemakers in our world and the film definitely talks about both of those things, but more about love. love on film so often, it s romantic love. there s another side to love, which is compassion and grace and generosity. what s this one for? i m starting you on fish oil. it s not going to give me fish burps, is it? j german film is, you know,
and then we had it says so in the film it was this amazing period in time for both of us. and then came all the chaos and all of that, all the resentment and all the bs and then i was painting him, a portrait of him as a young man and put his music on, and for whatever this is a few years ago all the resentment and the stuff drained away. so, there s nothing left but appreciation that i was there at that time. he was there, he wrote those songs and i sang. the film reveals much of her personal battles with inner demons and the fact that her father subjected her to some kind of abuse. you really do share your family s pathology in the film. why did you want to do that? i ve thought about doing it for years for a number of reasons. one, i guess what i say is i want to leave an honest legacy, because i know i ll have to leave some kind of legacy,