LE
TUNNEL
PRIX
AIR CANADA
PRIX DU PUBLIC
LE FILM LE PLUS POPULAIRE
DU FESTIVAL DES FILMS DU MONDE,
STANDING OVATION à MONTREAL
Dirk Schuerhoff (Beta Cinema) Louis Dussault
(K-films Amerique), Klaus Gerke (K-films),Yuki Imamura (Alcine
Terran) heureux distributeurs du TUNNEL devant un pan de
mur à l'hötel Intercontinental à Montreal
Nous
sommes heureux de vous annoncer encore un
PRIX DU PUBLIC
le 27 octobre à
cinessonne
(et le GRAND
PRIX CINEKID à Amsterdam le 28 à POUR UNE
POIGNEE D'HERBE )
Thursday,
November 1, 2001
LOS ANGELES TIMES
'Tunnel' Has a Bold Vision
The suspenseful movie, which is based on a true story, digs
into a plan to get past the Berlin Wall.
By KEVIN THOMAS, Times Staff Writer
Among such highly touted films as opening attraction "Dark Blue
World," "No Man's Land" and "Lantana" in AFI Fest 2001, which
commences today at the Egyptian and other Hollywood Boulevard
venues, is "The Tunnel" (Monday at the Egyptian), which is flat-out
the most exciting movie from Germany since "Das Boot."
Director Roland Suso Richter glues attention to the screen so
solidly it's about as easy to look away as it is to eat just
one potato chip.
Based on an amazing true story that occurred just after the
Berlin Wall went up, it stars Heino Ferch as a champion swimmer
who, with his engineer friend (Sebastian Koch), masterminds
an attempt to dig a tunnel under the wall through which some
two dozen people hope to escape to the West.
Richter and writer Johannes W. Betz miss absolutely no opportunity
to generate and sustain suspense. Will the tunnel collapse or
flood? Hit an unexpected obstacle or meet some other unanticipated
delay? Come out at the wrong site?
The possibilities for catastrophic miscalculation are as infinite
as they are for betrayal since so many people on both sides
of the wall must be trusted if so ambitious and risky an operation
is to have a prayer of succeeding.
Amid all the tension and paranoia Richter stirs up, he presents
a raft of sharply drawn individuals that allows full expression
of the tragic absurdity of the wall, which divided Germany and
isolated West Berlin for 28 years.
Yet
for all the somberness of the circumstances, "The Tunnel" is
terrifically stirring, inviting us to cheer the heroes and hiss
the villains. It is the kind of superbly crafted, intelligent
entertainment, a classic suspense thriller, that is nowadays
as rare as it is welcome.
prochains
festivals:
SAN SEBASTIAN 20-29/09 (info)
VANCOUVER 27-12/10
Festival
of Festivals:
DER TUNNEL devient le deuxième
film le plus populaire
HAIFA 2-8/10 (info)
GHENT 9-20/10 (info)
6 ÈME FESTIVAL DU CINEMA ALLEMAND
PARIS 10-16/10
(film d'ouverture) mention
des 4 films les plus populaire du festival
COACHELLA VALLEY HOOLYWOOD 25-4/11
Hollywood
lui fait la fëte à Coachella Valley au Festival
of Festivals:
de 116 films primés de 25 pays d'origine
DER TUNNEL devient
"BEST OVERALL FILM"
AFI FEST LOS ANGELES 1-11/11
(voir la critique ci-haut)
NEW FILMS FROM GERMANY, MUSEUM OF MODERN
ART, NEW YORK 1-13/11
(film d'ouverture)
HAWAII HONOLULU 2-11/11
ST LOUIS 8-18/11
compétition
10th Annual Festival - November 8-18, 2001 Our artistic vision
is to present cinema that offers us glimpses of human experience
around the world. When we learn about others through a myriad
of expressions, cultures and opinions, we discover something
about ourselves.
THE
TUNNEL won two awards at the festival:
the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature
and the
Audience Choice Award for Best Foreign Film.
FESTIVAL OF GERMAN CINEMA, LOS ANGELES 9-15/11
(film d'ouverture)
"ARRI Audience Award"
CLEVELAND 14-24/03/02
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biofilmo
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la
presse lire
les critiques festivals
IN ENGLISH