浜口監督作品が審査員大賞　「偶然と想像」―ベルリン映画祭

　【ベルリン時事】世界三大映画祭の一つ、第７１回ベルリン国際映画祭で５日、浜口竜介監督（４２）の「偶然と想像」が最高賞の金熊賞に次ぐ銀熊賞の審査員大賞に決まった。近年は寺島しのぶさん、黒木華さんが銀熊賞（女優賞）を受賞。日本作品としては、金熊賞を受賞した宮崎駿監督の「千と千尋の神隠し」以来１９年ぶりの快挙。
　審査員は「（作中の会話は）われわれが驚き、不安に感じ、どこまで行くのかと問い掛けるほどの深みまで進んでいく。浜口監督の言葉は素材であり、音楽であり、物質だ」と述べた。
　作品は、三つの独立した物語から成る「短編集」。脚本も浜口監督が手掛け、「偶然」と「想像」をテーマに細やかな演出で人間模様をすくい取った。日本公開は未定。（2021/03/05-22:48）

Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy" was awarded the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival on Friday.
   "I'm sincerely happy and proud for being awarded a prize from highly experienced directors," Hamaguchi, 42, said in a statement, referring to the festival's second most important award.
   "In the place where dialogues and words usually end, the dialogues of this film only begin," the jury said of Hamaguchi's film.
   "That's when they go deeper, so deep that, amazed and troubled, we ask ourselves: How much deeper can it go? The words of Hamaguchi are substance, music, material," the jury said.
   It is the first time that a Japanese film has won an award at the Berlinale since Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" won the Golden Bear award 19 years ago.