Sometimes, it's not difficult to confuse Chris Matthews. The liberal MSNBC host on Tuesday night was beside himself as video showed Donald Trump practicing his speech to Congress while waiting in a car to leave the White House.
What's so odd about a young, ennui-filled Parisienne whose romantic longings keep getting interrupted by the thump of dead seagulls falling from the sky? Nothing at all, if you're a fan of Strange Birds , a lightly surreal French film in one of the sidebar section at the Berlinale. It's an apt description for the festival's more eccentric selections: animal instincts keep getting intertwined with actual animals.