Berlin film festival – review

A severe lack of competition allowed a couple of sublime under-the-radar pictures to dazzle The first words I heard on the radio as I got into my Tegel airport taxi were "Kevin Spacey und Jeremy Irons". I'd missed their opening night film, Margin Call , but their names and faces are what matters. This year's Berlinale needed as much red-carpet fodder as it could get to crowd out the groans about