Isabel Coixet
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Berlinale 2015: In Cinema We Are All Travellers
FILM LANDSCAPES
As we travel with Gertrude Bell, the protagonist of Werner Herzog’s facile biopic Queen Of The Desert (USA/Morocco, 2015), through the wide open, sun-dried Arabian desserts, our hair and clothes wrapped in the warm yellow wind, we feel that we have slipped into some other time and..
Berlinale 2015: Nobody Wants The Night
NOBODY WANTS THE NIGHT
A delicate and pale face, covered with strange futuristic glasses, is wedged in a pile of furry animal skins and a gramophone is playing while a group of arctic explorers crosses the infinite white landscape on a dog sled. Mrs Josephine Peary is a woman on a mission. Her mi..