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Thursday, 10 February, 2000, 11:57 GMT
Bono grabs Berlin spotlight
![]() Director Wim Wenders with his star, actress Milla Jovovich
The Berlin Film Festival has opened with a premiere of German director Wim Wenders' latest work, The Million Dollar Hotel, based on a story co-written by rock star Bono.
It tells of a group of down-and-out people under investigation for a murder, and the doomed love of retarded Tom-Tom, played by Jeremy Davies, for Milla Jovovich's character Eloise. After the screening, Wenders said he was delighted to be back at the newly rebuilt Potsdamer Platz, where he shot one of his first successful films, Wings of Desire, 15 years ago. "It'd be an honour for any director on the planet to be here, but for me it's highly emotional," he said. "I never would have dreamed it."
"I still flinch when I see it," Bono said. "It's one of those awful 'There's the rock star in his movie' moments for me." The inspiration for the film, which launches 10 days of cinema leading up to the Golden Bear awards ceremony on 20 February, came to Bono while wandering through the real Million Dollar Hotel in Los Angeles in the 1980s. "Every room - there's so many stories in there," he explained. Tough competition The Million Dollar Hotel is one of three German movies among 21 in competition at the festival, but the six Hollywood films, including The Beach and The Talented Mr. Ripley, are grabbing most of the attention.
Other big names expected include French screen legend Jeanne Moreau, who will receive a special tribute on Friday, while Robert De Niro is due to be honoured with a retrospective. ER star George Clooney and rapper Ice Cube are in town for a showing of their Gulf War movie Three Kings ahead of its European release and Leonardo DiCaprio is expected to promote The Beach.
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