Berlin Film Festival: Director Defends Eight-Hour Movie That Features Hour-Long Lunch Break
by The Daily Eye Team February 19 2016, 4:05 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 51 secs‘It’s not slow cinema, it’s cinema,” says Lav Diaz, director of historical drama A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, shown at the Berlin film festival
Filipino director Lav Diaz says movies should not be judged by their length, so he gave the Berlin film festival a historical drama about the Philippines that runs more than eight hours.
Hele Sa HiwagangHapis (A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery) was shown in competition for the festival’s top Golden Bear prize in a screening that started at 9.30am and ended shortly before 7pm, with a one-hour lunch break.Colin Firth at the Berlin film festival: 'If someone wants me to wear a mankini in a film, I will'The film is similar to the duration of some other past festival favourites, such as Hungarian director Bela Tarr, whose Satantango clocks in at about seven hours.
But at a post-screening news conference Diaz rejected being labelled as a creator of “slow cinema”.
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