Rebecca Miller's She Came To Me is the opening film os the 73 Berlin Film Festival

This year’s opening film of the Berlin Film Festival “She Came To Me” follows Steven, a disgruntled composer suffering from a writer’s block who regains his creative vein after a bar-room hook-up with Katrina, an eccentric tugboat captain, who proceeds to passionately seduce him aboard ship. Married with a family, Steven tries to distance himself from Katrina, but as he makes his long-awaited comeback, with an outstanding new opera, his personal life implodes, and inevitably Katrina re-enters in his life.

A brilliant return after eight years for writer and director Rebecca Miller, daughter of legendary playwright Arthur Miller, who previously created such films as The Ballad of Jack and Rose and Maggie’s Plan. A fresh, utterly unpredictable romantic comedy, designed to break conventions, and thus a very vivid turn on every level. Also, excellent because of its care and refusal to indulge its audience with either sentiment or melodrama.

Miller exhibits a mastery of the rules of writing. She adds themes, inserts traces that make for both comedy and an interesting story with a unique deepness. The film opens with the notes of Merimee’s Carmen, the opera par excellence, in which two women are presented: the religious, domestic woman—in this case Steven's wife—and the wild one, who awakens the instincts and endangers the man—in this case Katrina, the epitome of Carmen.

This year’s opening film of the Berlin Film Festival “She Came To Me” follows Steven, a disgruntled composer s

Miller presents a society' at a crossroads, with laws that make love between teenagers a crime. If the movie at first alludes to Carmen, at the end it recalls the myth of Romeo and Juliet. In all, it can be seen as a microcosm of the American romantic mores. It also considers fear. Fear that builds boundaries between people, rich and powerful, those who love and those afraid of love, both physical and spiritual. This is a very accomplished film, championed by an outstanding cast. Brave, enjoyable, with energy and h