CLIVE OWEN - BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL OPENS

BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL OPENS

The Berlin Film Festival -- the Berlinale -- is set to open tonight (Thursday) with the screen of Tom Twyker's The International , a film whose plot about international banking power and greed appears to have been lifted from the recent news. The film stars Clive Owen and Naomi Watts as two crusaders determined to bring down a corrupt international bank. Speaking to Reuters, festival director Dieter Kosslick said, "If we had showed this film six months ago, a lot of people wouldn't have believed it. ... But now it might come across to some as a sort of documentary film." In a news release the festival said that several German political figures will be among those attending tonight's screening.

05/02/2009