Perched high up on a balcony wing at the Berlinale Palast overlooking the red carpet four floors below, Limbo director Ivan Sen is serene about his chances of taking home the Berlinale’s top prize, the Golden Bear (which ultimately went to French director Nicolas Philibert’s documentary On the Adamant). The Australian auteur and First Nations man is happy enough to be in contention.
Softly spoken and thoughtful in his responses, the director of the original big screen Mystery Road (later translated to the ABC show) and its sequel Goldstone is not the type to blow his own trumpet, but Limbo is a beautifully melancholic film.
