Berlin Film Festival opens with a messy Versailles

by Leo Bankersen
9 February 201230 March 2022
4 min read
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De 62e Berlinale opende vanavond met Les adieux à la reine van Benoït Jacquot, een Frans kostuumstuk dat zich niet aan de regels houdt. De jurken die de bedienden van koningin Marie Antoinette dragen worden vies en een van de hoofdpersonen struikelt in haar haast en gaat tweemaal languit. Als de film begint schrijven we 14 juli 1789, en de Bastille is zojuist bestormd. Berichten over het volk dat tot schrik van Lodewijk XVI en zijn gevolg niet meer genoegen neemt met brood maar macht wil en een ...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

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