Anne Hathaway Stresses Importance Of Embracing Cinemagoing & All Types Of Movies “If This Art Form Is To Continue” – Berlin

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The Berlin Film Festival kicks off this evening with the gala world premiere of Rebecca Miller’s She Came to Me. Ahead of the opening night out-of-competition screening, Miller met the Berlinale press corps alongside cast members including Anne Hathaway, Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei, Joanna Kulig and Evan Ellison.

Hathaway is also a producer on the multi-generational story that’s set in New York, but she was quick to note that even though this is an independent movie, her “heart beats for (all) film, and the more types of them the better.” The Oscar winner clarified, “I think sometimes we think of these things as isolated from each other.

But right now I think the way we’re all participating in films and the way we all kind of are unsure as to what the future of audience culture is, I think it’s important to love all types of films and show up in person at the movie theater for all the types of films that we can if this art form is to continue.” She Came to Me, which Miller scripted and which reps her fourth in Berlin, is billed as an exploration of “love in all its forms.” Miller today commented, “Love and hate are the two great motivators for human beings.

Obviously love is the more positive and I do think it is the thing that really does transform people and change the trajectory of their lives.” The film follows a composer (Dinklage) suffering from writer’s block who rediscovers his passion after an adventurous one-night stand; as well as a couple of gifted teenagers who fight to prove to the parents that their young love is something that can last forever; and a woman who seemingly has it all for whom love arrives in the most unexpected places.