Here are more press screenings and regular screenings that I was this week.
STORY OF FILM; AN ODYSSEY parts 3 and 4---I always know that I'll end even a crappy day of film going with this insightful, fascinating, exhaustive movie history experience. GRADE A
This dynamic French film GUILTY tells the true story of an innocent man and wife accused of molesting the children of people they didn't even know---and the nightmare that follows in prison and in the court system. The lead actor is excellent---gaining and losing weight throughout the story. GRADE----------A-
Small, subtle, surprising story from Argentina which shows how the middle class exploits its indigenous people. The ending of this gentle film called NOSILATIAJ BEAUTY is a whopper. GRADE--------B+
Charming Russian film MY DAD IS BARYSHNIKOV is quite funny and lively, mixing coming of age story with desire to dance. Unfortunately, the ending is rather low key, losing some of the earlier fizz. GRADE--------B
Modest story set at end of World War II, 4 DAYS IN MAY has some tension-filled (if unlikely) plot of Red Russian army trying to protect small girls in a German school from improprieties as the war is ending. GRADE------B
OTELO BURNING actually gets better as the film progresses---nothing like learning on the job. Three young poor black teens from South Africa discover the joys and "freedoms" of surfing, while their small township is going through some violent political changes. It is a tragedy, although nothing like it's namesake Othello. GRADE------B
Interesting documentary of an indigenous man who is probably "accidentally" killed 45 minutes after he is booked, THE TALL MAN shed light on the prejudice's that exist in Australia. GRADE----B-
The first 2 hours of the nearly 4 hour Russian film CHAPITEAU-SHOW are a lot of fun, with brightly filmed scenes set at a famous beach town, but it is down hill from there. First half is rated B but the second half gets a C-. Total GRADE---------C+
Brutal and exhausting to watch, I'm glad they made the film DIAZ--DON'T CLEAN UP THIS BLOOD to show us or remind us of an horrific incident of police brutality in 2000 Genoa. Unfortunately, it had audience members running from the theatre while the rest of us felt numb afterwards. GRADE-------C+
PRIME TIME SOAP from Brazil plays a lot like a soap opera, but with added bits of political intrigue and violent brutality. Too bad the subtitles were nearly unreadable--you can maybe read about 25% of them, so a lot details may have been lost to the non Spanish speaker. GRADE----C+
I didn't buy into the premise that a shallow blind 30 year old girl could "have any man she wanted" and I didn't care for any of the characters in the tedious Spanish film 6 POINTS ABOUT EMMA. GRADE------C
US independent film THE MOST FUN I'VE EVER HAD WITH MY PANTS ON has some lovely photography that features the South West cross country trip that two 20-something childhood girl friends take in the car. Unfortunately, someone forgot to provide a story/scrip for them---the dialogue is banal. GRADE--------D+
I couldn't become engaged with the black and white, TOTALLY abstract script/story/film ---the newest from Guy Madden (MY WINNIPEG, SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD). This new film called KEYHOLE was total chaos and absurdity for the first hour, so I left. GRADE -------D
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