Kate Hudson, Casey Affleck in The Killer Inside Me (Berlin Film Festival) (top); Lene Maria Christensen, Johan Philip Asbæk in A Family (Zentropa / Rolf Konow) (middle, upper); Moritz Bleibtreu, Tobias Moretti in Jud Süss — Film Without a Conscience (Petro Domenigg / Concorde Film) (middle, lower); Mark Ruffalo, Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island (Paramount) (bottom)
THE GHOST WRITER at 60th Berlin Film Festival
Also of note at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival are Michael Winterbottom's violent crime drama The Killer Inside Me, starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, and Kate Hudson, which caused a furor at the Sundance Film Festival due to its graphic depiction of violence against women; Thomas Vinterberg's Submarino, the story of two estranged, downtrodden brothers; and 2006 Golden Bear winner Jasmila Zbanic's On the Path, in which a Bosnian man with a drinking problem gets involved with Muslim fundamentalists.
Also, Pernille Fischer Christensen's A Family, which pits old family ties (parents) against new family ties (husband); Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Howl, featuring James Franco as poet Allen Ginsberg, on trial for obscenity; and Oskar Roehler's Jud Süss — Film Without a Conscience, a biopic of actor Ferdinand Marian, who starred in what may well be the most reviled movie in history, Veit Harlan's anti-Semitic Jud Süß (1940).
In Roehler's film, Tobias Moretti stars as Marian, Moritz Bleibtreu plays Josef Goebbels, and The Lives of Others' Martina Gedeck is Anna Marian. Paula Kalenberg plays Jud Süß leading lady Kristina Söderbaum.
Martin Scorsese's suspense thriller Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, will be screened out of competition, along with a couple of well-received Sundance entries, Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right and Nicole Holofcener's Please Give; Yoji Yamada's family drama About Her Brother; graffiti artist Banksy's documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop; and Karan Johar's My Name is Khan, starring Bollywood idol Shahrukh Khan.
Banksy will be at the Berlinale — but no one will know exactly who or exactly where. He'll be incognito.