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Matt Damon Says Berlinale Opener ‘Small Things Like These’ Is “Asking The Audience To Care About Cinema”
Matt Damon talks Cillian Murphy and Small Things Like These at Berlinale
Addressing the movie’s press conference in Berlin today, Damon, who starred in Oppenheimer opposite Murphy, said “there is enough audience in the world that still does [care about cinema]” amidst fraught geopolitics and financial challenges for the sector. In Tim Mielants’ Small Things Like These, which is financed by Damon and Ben Affleck’s Artists Equity, Murphy plays a devoted family man who discovers the local convent is in fact a cruel institution that takes in so-called ‘fallen girls and women.’ This revelation forces him to confront some hard truths about the convent, his hometown — and his own life. Earlier, the opening jury press conference was a spicy affair, with members including Lupita Nyong’o and Christian Petzold drawn into multiple — occasionally testy — discussions about their own political stances on events in Ukraine, Gaza and Germany.
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