It is first of all, Terrence Malick. With "Knight of Cups", competing for the Golden Bear, the American director filmed book a long poem in which he recounts the dangers of celebrity thanks to a top-flight cast with Christian Bale, Natalie Portman and Cate Blanchett.
Other maestro poetry of images and words to documentary service, Patricio Guzmán. With "The pearl button" Chilean demands accountability on the extermination of the natives and victims of the Pinochet dictatorship in his country. Two genocides on which the country has yet to light.
"The documentary film, it is poetry, poetry and information too. But mostly poetry. The shape of things to say, do not give a lesson to the audience if the same spectator, he realizes the subject, "says Patricio Guzmán.
"Terence Malick and Patricio Guzmán, two masters, two veterans of the image of poetry each ask profound questions about life and they have mastered brilliantly about them.
Mr. Malick is aesthetics to tell with pictures and it is a style Guzmán
Documentary more prosaic. So far, these two films are among the best of the international selection. In Berlin, Wolfgang Spindler, euronews.
