Jury member
These day Berlinale jury member Brigitte Roüan is very busy. On opening day, she was a bit jetlagged after a whirlwind tour of the US to promote Post Coitum, a film which she wrote and directed. "So far all I've seen of Berlin is the cinema, my hotel room and the Library" at the Interconti where the jurors meet to relax.
Roüan has acted since the early 1970s. She's worked with some of the giants of French cinema. "I was at the top of my talent because of them," she says. "They were such good directors."
She is also enjoying her time with fellow jurors. "Usually I like to be alone", when watching movies, she says, but she likes having the other members of the jury by her side during screenings. "We are from all over the world, except Africa, and you can feel" their reactions to the movie "without looking at them," she enthuses. Roüan has advice for young filmmakers about getting a script made: "It is not a matter of talent but of perserverance," she says. Post Coitum took six years to get produced.
Though she won't have time to see films in other sections she's impressed by the sheer number of films showing in Berlin.
"There is a strong smell here," she says. "The perfume of cinema." Owen Levy
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