Oscar nominee Tilda Swinton ("Michael Clayton") is at the Berlin International Film Festival with a pair of projects, starring in Erick Zonca's competition entry "Julia," which debuts tonight (Saturday) and as a producer and performer in Isaac Julien's "Derek." Asked about stretching to play such an extreme character -- a self-abusive alcoholic -- Swinton explained during today's press conference, "She is not that exotic, we all know people like Julia, let's face it." Continuing, she praised Zonca, "I call his cinema a kind of zoology, a cinema of zoology. He's a kind of David Attenborough, he takes three meters of this one animal's life and he gives it to you," and she added, "It's got that kind of scrutiny and it's that complicated and it's that amoral and it's that compassionate and it's really intense because it's examining what I was looking for in a cinema for many years. It's such a relief to find this sort of passionate amorality in the cinema at last, again." [Eugene Hernandez]