Why should I go and watch this film?
1: for Martin Scorcese. 2: for Leonardo DiCaprio.
But the famous director and his muse aren't the only good reasons. For the duration of two hours, it's guaranteed that this film will magic you away to a farway paradise isle and by the end of it, you'll be questioning the world and his wife's mental health
Trailer: 'Shutter Island'
Strong points
Definitely the screenplay and of course Dennis Lehane's original book. The story will exasperate you throughout. Berliners liked seeing Leonardo Di Caprio speaking a bit of German
Weak points
Scorsese drives us crazy almost throughout the entire film but he expertly guides us through to the last minutes and onto the right track. Bit of a shame. Even if Scorcese is an able decoder and referencer of all the elements of a good thriller, sometimes it feels a bit much
Rating out of 5: ****
4/5 - three for the film and one for Leo DiCaprio's performance. I'm not a fan, but he carries the intrigue throughout
Post-premiere reactions
Shutter Island was one of the 400 films which was most awaited with bated breath at this year's Berlin film festival. You'll just feel like clapping - even those critics who weren't completely satisfied with some details did
Watching this film will make you want to
Watch it again. As soon as.
(Sébastien Vannier, live from the Berlin film festival)
Check out the premiere photos (©Katarzyna Swierc)
The film also stars Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams and Sir Ben Kingsley. We also spotted Leo's proud mama at the premiere.
Click here to check the film's release dates where you are
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insufficient staff, violent students and latent ethnic conflicts. The school becomes a social hot spot where different cultures, classes and religious views clash with each other. Good-will of the teacher alone can not solve the problem. Sonia Bergerac (Isabelle Adjani) is completely overstrained with her job in front of tyrannic students. Eventually she decides to bring a gun to class and introduces radical new teaching methods. Things escalate when she gets involved in a hold up that involves students, parents, police, a desperate principal and voyeuristic media alike. Lilienfeld has produced a drama which is sometimes a bit far fetched, but which refuses easy guilt patterns. Politicians, teacher and students are equally accused. The message is clear: all of them have to get back in the boat to save an ailing education system. 
the chaotic relation of Adria (Rie Rasmussen), half Serb, half Albanian and the deserter Srdjan (Nicola Djuricko). Both flee out of the former Serbian part of Kosovo and take on a career as racketeers and arms dealer. A different narration shows Adria separated from Srdjan in Marseilles, where she is an illegal immigrant. Flashback sequences connect the two narrations and locations. Rassmussen makes the audience hop from Adria’s love quest in France to kosovar trauma and pain with a bit too much ease. She neither depicts an authentic way to come to terms with the war past, nor does she dress a psychological portrait of the characters. Adria is a freak, who knows how to survive by the means of violence. But what for? Rassmussen’s character doesn’t know the answer and does not search for it. And when this stylised Lady walks in high heels over piled cadavers we rather tend to think of “Human hell” than a “Human Zoo”.
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