Die Wettbewerbsauswahl – u.a. Filme von Peter Ustinov, Marco Ferreri, Arthur Miller, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Zin-Uh Zeong und Pier Paolo Pasolini – wollte allzu offensichtlich einen Mittelweg gehen und fiel dabei allzu oft in Mittelmäßigkeit.
Der Goldene Bär an Pasolinis I Racconti di Canterbury wurde als Verlegenheitslösung gewertet.
Immerhin hatte Pasolini an anderer Stelle mehrfach sein Genie bewiesen.
www.berlinale.deThe Competition line-up ( including films by Peter Ustinov, Marco Ferreri, Arthur Miller, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Zin-Uh Zeong and Pier Paolo Pasolini ) tried all too obviously to steer a middle course and thus, more often than not, succumbed to mediocrity.
The Golden Bear awarded to Pasolini’s I Racconti di Canterbury | The Canterbury Tales was regarded as a stopgap measure;
after all, Pasolini had already proven his genius on numerous other occasions.
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