Irina Palm: you can't miss it.

Cheers and applause erupted following the Berlinale press screening Tuesday, and that reaction should accompany this competition... Read the full review and more at hollywoodreporter.com.

Faithfull Film a Hit at Berlin Film Festival (From IMBD)
14 February 2007 (WENN)
Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull is stunning movie fans at the Berlin Film Festival in Germany with her portrayal of a grandmother who becomes a London sex worker. Faithfull's starring role in Irina Palm has become the hit of the festival so far. In the movie, the 1960s icon plays a grandma so desperate to raise funds for her sick grandson's medical treatment she signs up to pleasure men through a hole in a wall. Faithfull received a standing ovation at a press screening of the film yesterday. Earlier, at a press conference, she dedicated her performance to friends in the sex industry. She said, "I've had friends who have worked in the sex trade, really good friends, and they're now dead. Our film doesn't glamorize it. We try to make it as real as it possibly could be. It's the sex trade. It's not fun for women."

Maggie, a 50-year-old widow - still faithful to her dead husband, desperately needs some money to pay for a medical treatment for her ill grandson. After several unfruitful attempts to find a job, Maggie finds herself roaming the streets of London Soho. Her eye is caught by a small poster in the window of a 'shop' called "Sexy World" which reads: "Hostess wanted". Too desperate and lost to realize what she does she enters. Micky, the owner, is embarrassed at first, but intrigued by Maggie, he decides to have fun and offers her the job. Under the pseudonym of Irina Palm, Maggie courageously gets to know her first anonymous customers. Micky observes his recruit. Maggie, who applies herself in order to keep her job, fascinates him. When she does something, she makes sure she does it well.

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Irina Palm - Bande-annonce 1 - Anglais - kewego
Maggie, une veuve de 50 ans, cherche l'argent qui permettra de payer un traitement à son petit-fils gravement malade. Désespérée, elle décide de travailler comme hôtesse dans le "Sexy world" de Soho...

Palabras clave:marianne faithfull sam garbarski miki manojlovic

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For more information in Spanish and about where to see this film in Madrid click here.