Adina Pintilie’s “Touch Me Not” wins Berlin’s Golden Bear
BERLIN — “Touch Me Not,” an experimental movie about intimacy from Romanian director Adina Pintilie, won the top Golden Bear prize at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday.
The movie, which follows the story of a woman who can’t bear to be touched and various other people searching for intimacy, was chosen from a field of 19 competitors at the first of the year’s major European movie festivals. The Berlin jury was led by German director Tom Tykwer.
“We were not expecting that,” Pintilie said. “We would like that the dialogue ‘Touch Me Not’ proposes opens to the world, so we invite you, the viewer, to dialogue.”
American Wes Anderson was named best director Saturday for his animated movie “Isle of Dogs,” a journey that begins with a city’s dogs being exiled to a vast garbage dump and features the voices of Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum and Scarlett Johansson, among others.
