Berlin Review: Michael Koch’s ‘A Piece Of Sky’
deadline.com“Do you believe in God?,” Julia asks her stepfather on his sickbed. He looks down at her little face. Not much captures his interest these days. “I think so,” he mumbles.
Julia continues, undeterred. “I believe in something else,” she says firmly. “The sun, mountains, animals, trees. And snow.” Marco says nothing — he never said much, even at his most hale and hearty — but his big body seems to soften in acceptance.
She’s talking his language. She is also speaking the language of this film. Michael Koch’s Berlin Film Festival competition entry A Piece Of Sky (Drii Winter) is both beautifully made and a thing of beauty in itself.
Every lovely thing you have ever seen on a box of Lindt is here: old chalets and timber barns, snow-capped Alps, grizzled Swiss farmers in jerkins embroidered with edelweiss.
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