Monkey Business
Sunday, February 18, 2007 | 05:50 PM ET
Last night was the big awards ceremony here at the Berlinale. All the Golden, Silver and Teddy Bear trophies were dealt out to an extremely heterogeneous array of directors and actors from round the world who, owing to their identically empowered smiles of victory, suddenly resembled members of the same family. They were beaming and well groomed siblings and parents in a complicated, interracial Brady Bunch.
Strange that, as competitive as I am, I never determined whether my film was in competition. It probably wasn’t because I didn’t win anything. Anyway, all the winners were gracious and beautiful and full of poise – all those things winners are.