Preview, “Berlin, I Love You” gives the German capital the “New York, I Love You” and “Paris, j’taime

The cast is far far FAR more impressive than the team of directors who bring this romantic travelogue to the screen.

Oscar winner Helen Mirren, Diego Luna, Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Hayden Panettiere, Jenna Dewan, Luke Wilson and Jim Sturgess are in it.

As is “Glee” veteran Dianna Agron. Who is also the first credited director.

But Til Schweigher and Peter Chelsom and “Berlin Nights” helmer Gabriela Tscherniak are also behind cameras for segments on the omnibus romance in the striking city formula that these movies hew to.

“Berlin, I Love You” tells ten stories in the city and doesn’t appear to have a US release date. Yet. They’d better hurry. “Shanghai, I Love You” (Romance in the Repressive People’s Republic? OK.) is in the pipeline to come out next.

Yeah, the Mickey Rourke sequence looks…icky.

About Roger Moore

Movie Critic, formerly with McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, published in Spin Magazine, The World and now published here, Orlando Magazine, Autoweek Magazine
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