- #iffr2010: Night & Fog – nice, sometimes impressively sad & beautiful; got very angry, so that's a good story well told & filmed ✪✪✪✪ #iffr #
- music: once more, with feeling.. Marcelo D2 – Desabafo.. sweeeet.. ♫ http://blip.fm/~kci1q #
- #iffr2010: skipped Erie for Lebanon #iffr #
- #iffr2010: a Q&A with the director before Lebanon starts #iffr http://twitpic.com/11d40p #
- #iffr2010: Lebanon – very impressive anti-war film, no one's on the side of the angels and the devil's inside us all ✪✪✪✪✪ #iffr #
- #iffr2010: switched Two In The Wave for some good ol' Asian gangster movie action; ready for Slice #iffr #
Articles Archive for 4 February 2010
Written By: frenchy on February 4, 2010
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Written By: frenchy on February 4, 2010
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Movie: Pepperminta (Pipilotti Rist, 2009, Switzerland, Austria, 80 min.) 
Date: Jan 30, 2010
Rating: 
(No need for LSD anymore..)
Plot: The playful Pepperminta wants to liberate people from their fears and make the world a more human place.
Cast: After 15 minutes I was ready to kick that constantly cheerful smile off her face.
Visuals: Director Pipilotti Rist (yes, really) has a talent for colors and visuals. Beautiful psychedelic happenings throughout the movie.
Conclusion: I think most men will be a bit distracted by the whole menstrual thing, I know I was. Still, it’s a beautiful fairy tale mixed with some morality play and lots of wacky weirdness and visuals. Great fun!
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Written By: frenchy on February 4, 2010
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Movie: Samson & Delilah (Warwick Thornton, 2009, Australia, 101 min. )
Date: Jan 30, 2010
Rating:
(grim, harsh and uncomfortable with some everlasting love)
Plot: When two aboriginal teenagers try to flee their stuffy village, life elsewhere turns out to be not much better.
Cast: The main male character had almost no lines, but he managed to deliver a nice performance.
Visuals: We’re spared the obvious Outback shots and for that I’m grateful, kinda refreshing..
Conclusion: It’s a very dark place to be in, this world of Samson and Delilah. But there’s ska to alleviate some glumness and there’s this unconditional love between the two teenagers that shines through it all.
It’s easy to criticize the movie for being too focused on all the bad things happening to the aboriginals instead of the recent more positive developments, but my reaction would be something like: fuck off, you guilt-ridden, politically correct wanker. It still is necessary to show their plight as long as it takes decades to admit to and reckon with things like The Stolen Generations.
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Written By: frenchy on February 4, 2010
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Movie: Autumn Adagio (Inoue Tsuki, 2009, Japan, 70 min. )
Date: Jan 30, 2010
Rating:
(Sweet, soft and sad..)
Plot: A catholic nun gets confused around the age of forty about her emotions and sexuality, as a result of her encounters with three very different men.
Cast: Solid cast, lead actress Rei Shibakusa really made you identify with the internal struggles.
Visuals: Autumn as a theme, so lots of shots of golden tree leaves in parks, etc. For most parts a very sober use of visuals.
Conclusion: Nice movie, kept me entertained and interested in the story development. Sometimes funny and sad at the same time.
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Written By: frenchy on February 4, 2010
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Movie: Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola, 2009, USA, Italy, Spain, Argentina, 127 min. )
Date: Jan 29, 2010
Rating:
(Mister Coppola does it again..)
Plot: an 18 yr-old runs away from home to join his long lost brother, who’s living in Argentina. The reunion does not go well.
Cast: like I read somewhere, the main character’s a carbon copy of a young DiCaprio but that isn’t a problem; he’s a talented and interesting presence. Tetro actor Vincent Gallo also gives a strong performance and I’m officially in love with Maribel Verdú 
Visuals: WOW WOW! WOW!!
Black and White photography has never looked this good in many many years! It’s a lot of visual eyecandy with strong almost classic imagery mixed with some sanitized absurdisms.
Conclusion: go see this film in a theater; your 50inch screen still isn’t big enough to truly enjoy this cinematic experience! The story’s reasonably straightforward, sometimes clichéd but it kept on going nicely.
Did Coppola make a great movie? Hellyeah!!
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