Johnny Depp arrived at the Berlin Film Festival Friday to support the film “Minamata,” in which he plays celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith. In the film, based on real events, Smith is pitted against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning with mercury the people of Minamata in Japan in 1971.
Also in Berlin were Minami, who plays Aileen, a young Japanese woman who persuades the burned-out Smith – an alcoholic and amphetamine addict – to take on one last assignment; Bill Nighy, who plays Bob Hayes, the editor of Life magazine, Smith’s long-suffering employer; Hiroyuki Sanada, who plays local activist Mitsuo Yamazaki; cinematographer Benoît Delhomme; and director Andrew Levitas.
At the film’s press conference, Depp said he had a “strange fascination” with Smith and his photography, which was enhanced when he’d “read a bit about his life and what he’d gone through, what he’d experienced, what he...
Also in Berlin were Minami, who plays Aileen, a young Japanese woman who persuades the burned-out Smith – an alcoholic and amphetamine addict – to take on one last assignment; Bill Nighy, who plays Bob Hayes, the editor of Life magazine, Smith’s long-suffering employer; Hiroyuki Sanada, who plays local activist Mitsuo Yamazaki; cinematographer Benoît Delhomme; and director Andrew Levitas.
At the film’s press conference, Depp said he had a “strange fascination” with Smith and his photography, which was enhanced when he’d “read a bit about his life and what he’d gone through, what he’d experienced, what he...
- 2/21/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety - Film News
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