Brent Simon There’s no shortage of movies that gauzily peddle the notion of art as a balm. Few, however, are as invested in the charged immediacy of art’s relationship to real-life pain as “Kiss the Future,” a documentary enjoying its world premiere Feb.
19 in the Berlinale Special slot, with Fifth Season and WME handling worldwide sales. Directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain, and based on American-born aid worker Bill Carter’s “Fools Rush in: A Memoir” (the pair share a screen story credit), the film is a savvy mélange of history and cultural portraiture that affectingly chronicles the struggle of Sarajevo’s besieged civilians during the Bosnian War of the 1990s.
Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, the movie shows the young Carter bluffing his way into an interview with the frontman of the biggest band in the world at the time: U2, a group never afraid of sociopolitical statements or marrying big ideas to even bigger emotions in arena-ready rock ’n’ roll that doesn’t forsake intimacy.
The results of that initial meeting, all chronicled in “Kiss the Future,” would come to include U2 beaming by satellite into Sarajevo nightly during their groundbreaking Zoo TV Tour, and subsequently making good on a promise to play a concert in the city with an emotional 1997 PopMart show.
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