Black Angel
A sort of dreamlike fairytale short.
Month: February 2014
Ida
A black and white Polish film about nuns. It’s about a novice, who finds out before she takes her vows that she is ethnically Jewish, and that her parents were killed in the Holocaust. She goes on a roadtrip with her only surviving relative, a lush partygirl aunt, to find her parents’ remains and decide…
Zero Charisma
My favourite movie of the festival by a country mile! Laugh out loud funny. There’s another showing tomorrow, if you can possibly go, do so. It’s about hardcore Game Master Weidemeyer facing off against his geek chic nemesis. Honestly, GO!
Miss Violence
Well that was depressing. A long look at a family under the thumb of the paternal tyrant, who turns out to be a paedophile, to the surprise of absolutely no one. Grim.
A Thousand Times Goodnight
The first scenes are so beautiful the rest of the film couldn’t help but be a let down. It was actually a bit hokey, despite excellent performances from Juliet Binoche and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (that’s Jaime Lannister to you and me). It’s about a photojournalist trying to get a good work-life balance, which is actually incredibly…
The Congress
Best movie of the festival I’ve seen so far. Psychedelic sci-fi about copyright and consciousness, switching between animation and live action. Simply, it’s a surreal fairytale, ideal for those that enjoyed something like Spirited Away. But the plot’s springboard is more about the idea of marketable fantasy, not celloid but chemical, a sort of lo-fi…
The Last of the Unjust
A 4 hour documentary on the Holocaust. Is it okay to say it was boring? There were four other people in the cinema with me, one of whom fell asleep and started snoring over the film. To me it felt bloated, overlong and self-indulgent. Just because the subject is important doesn’t mean your three thousand…
The Book Thief
Very true to the book, I liked that they kept Death as the narrator.
The Hour of the Lynx
Kinda went nowhere, but was enjoyable all the same, it’s best feature being Søren Malling’s performance.
The Quispe Girls
One of *those* films, where people ask, “Who will buy our cheese?” for 2 hours. Very beautiful all the same, with extra points for featuring enthusiastic Chilean herding dogs and a goat wearing a cardigan.