Festival Report IV
As pretty much all my Festival shows are Film Festival ones from now on, I restrained from writing an update each day as the films are all reviewed on my website anyway. So to recap since Sunday afternoon, I've been to another 4. Sunday saw show number 8, Little Miss Sunshine, a dark comedy about a dysfunctional family taking a road trip.
Monday night I went to show No. 9 which was Mirrorball: Made in Japan; a series of short films and music videos from Japanese directors. The show got off to a good start with two videos from Electro-J-Pop outfit Polysics featuring some bodypoppin' schoolgirls, things from there on were a little sketchy, some decent shorts (including an MTV one featuring robot JCBs under attack from seals!), some terrible Japanese boy bands "Your life is super entertainment", far too much Rip Slyme for one evening. All in all, a bit of a mixed bag, but worth seeing.
Last Night was shows 10 and 11 at Cineworld, first one was Shut up and Shoot Me another Black Comedy, this time about a man who can't cope with the loss of his wife, so tries to pay another man to kill him. The idea was alright, but the movie wasn't amazing. Second up was Hotel Harabati. Again the premise sounded promising, a couple discover a left bag full of money at a train station on their way to Venice and decide to keep it and skip the trip. To be fair, the film was pretty good up until it ended with large parts of the plot left deliberately unexplained.
Monday night I went to show No. 9 which was Mirrorball: Made in Japan; a series of short films and music videos from Japanese directors. The show got off to a good start with two videos from Electro-J-Pop outfit Polysics featuring some bodypoppin' schoolgirls, things from there on were a little sketchy, some decent shorts (including an MTV one featuring robot JCBs under attack from seals!), some terrible Japanese boy bands "Your life is super entertainment", far too much Rip Slyme for one evening. All in all, a bit of a mixed bag, but worth seeing.
Last Night was shows 10 and 11 at Cineworld, first one was Shut up and Shoot Me another Black Comedy, this time about a man who can't cope with the loss of his wife, so tries to pay another man to kill him. The idea was alright, but the movie wasn't amazing. Second up was Hotel Harabati. Again the premise sounded promising, a couple discover a left bag full of money at a train station on their way to Venice and decide to keep it and skip the trip. To be fair, the film was pretty good up until it ended with large parts of the plot left deliberately unexplained.
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