Freshfields’ home-grown celluloid heroes
The major movie awards may be out of the way this year, but Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer rolled out the red carpet last week for a night of cinematic celebration.
Freshfields fêted its own clutch of Steven Spielbergs after every office was given £5,000 to make a video to mark the 10-year anniversary of its German merger.
Senior management double act Ted Burke and Will Lawes stood in for Billy Crystal and Anne Hathaway as hosts of the glittering ceremony at which the prizes were handed out.
An insider described one Italian effort as ”Fellini-esque”, although nobody was in a position to confirm whether any of the German films paid tribute to FW Murnau’s expressionist classic Nosferatu.
The Amsterdam office carried off the Best Screenplay gong, while Paris won Most Outstanding Performance, with the entire cast taking the plaudits. Best Original Screenplay went to Tokyo, while London claimed possibly the most coveted honour - the Angel Award for the film that best captures the spirit of the firm. A firm spokesman described the film - a documentary looking at the life of a London lawyer - as “David Attenborough meets the City”.
Readers' comments (3)
Chiaroscuro | 14-Mar-2011 10:47 am
The Germans contribution was, in fact, reminiscent of Robert Wiene’s 1920 masterpiece “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”; i.e. the story of crazed somnambulant...
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Associate Amsterdam | 14-Mar-2011 2:14 pm
My Dutch pride forces me to note here that the Amsterdam office in fact won the award for "Best overall film" with a stunning remake of Michael Jackson's Thriller"with a Dutch twist
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Captain Haddock | 15-Mar-2011 11:32 am
Did the 'Dutch twist' involve those illegal substances/practices for which they are famous?
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