“I, Anna” at the Berlinale Feb 12 & 14

Happy Early Valentine’s Day, everyone!

“I, Anna” is scheduled to be shown twice at the Berlinale, on February 12 and February 14–Valentine’s Day!–as part of the Berlinale Special Program.

You can read more about the film (and order tickets!) at the Berlinale website and here is the official programme for the film.

The synopsis:

Anna Welles lives in a tiny apartment in London. Although no longer young, she is nonetheless still attractive. From time to time she attends an event for singles where she occasionally meets a man and goes home with him. After one of her nocturnal rendezvous she comes to the attention of a detective superintendent who is investigating a brutal murder that took place at the high rise she is seen leaving the next morning. Somehow, this cultivated loner can’t seem to get this woman out of his mind. Nothing could be easier for him than to find out where she lives and follow her. He asks her out on a date and feels increasingly drawn to her. But the lady appears to be hiding something mysterious in between her job at a department store and babysitting her grandchild – something that really begins
to get to the detective.

Charlotte Rampling plays the leading role of femme fatale in her son Barnaby Southcombe’s directorial debut. Southcombe’s screenplay is based on Nico Hoffmann’s adaptation of the novel Solo für Klarinette. I,ANNA is reminiscent of film noir made in the seventies and eighties in which the criminal investigations play second fiddle to the psychological state of the protagonists and their wounds and obsessions.

Pictures provided at the Berlinale website include:

If you live in Berlin, near Berlin, or care to travel to Berlin, here is the perfect way to spend a Byrneholics Valentine’s Day!