South Korean director Bong Joon-ho will current his new movie “Mickey 17” out of competitors in Berlin subsequent month, town’s movie pageant introduced.
Six years in the past, Bong received the Palme d’Or at Cannes then an Oscar for greatest image for “Parasite” — the primary not in English to take action on the Academy Awards.
Science fiction black comedy “Mickey 17” stars Robert Pattinson as Mickey, who has volunteered in a program through which cloning permits him to have a number of successive lives to the purpose the place “dying is a habit”.
The Berlinale is the primary main European movie occasion of the yr.
The pageant has additionally introduced that it’s going to give a lifetime achievement award to British actor Tilda Swinton, who has additionally collaborated with Bong previously.
The pageant opens with the newest providing from German film-maker Tom Tykwer, who made his identify with “Run, Lola, Run” in 1998.
The seventy fifth version of the Berlinale runs from February 13 to 23. The full program and movies within the operating for the Golden Bear is because of be introduced on January 21.
Last yr, French-Senegalese director Mati Diop’s “Dahomey”, a documentary analyzing Europe’s return of looted antiquities to Africa, took the distinguished prize.
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