Ready, Steady, Go!
The competition kicks off

THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Competition)
US 2007
158 min
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson (Silver Bear)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor
Music: John Greenwood (Silver Bear)
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On the first day it seems as if there was already a favourite candidate for the Golden Bear. There Will Be Blood from the States sets up high the bar. Although the audience became querulous at the beginning because of some sound setting problems, nobody despised the film or lost track of the haunting tension of the movie. Already nominated in eight categories for the Academy Award and just won the Golden Globe in the category of best actor. It’s a story about an evil and destructive man, who sacrifices everything he has till he has nothing more to loose, intensely played in a painfully bitter manner by Day Lewis being surrounded by dark angels. On one hand the Machiavellian hypocrite and bigot preacher Eli who follows his own path and mission to banish the devil from the so called lost souls. And on the other hand the black gold - named oil! Paul Thomas Anderson set up an allegoric parable about greed and the potency to wield power, which is as up to date as it was centuries ago. It’s a powerful painting wrapped in an impressive beautiful cinematography - deserted lands, digging men in muddy gorges and exploding oil rigs hotly burning the men faces and enlightening darksome nights till morning comes and the fire gets choked. Not to forget the painful melancholic music of Radiohead guitarist Johnny Greenwood.