Friday begins with The Sword Bearer aka: Mechenosets, an impressionistic Russian film with noir elements, about a hero along the lines of the Punisher. Lots of action and violence promised in this one.
Gary Oldham takes a break from playing psycho villains in American films to portray the possibly sympathetic protagonist in The Backwoods. A European Deliverance or Straw Dogs, the movie recounts the tale of a Spanish hunting trip gone terrible wrong. Director Koldo Serra will be there live in person!
Saturday’s Ain’t It Cool News Secret Screening #1 leaves me with some trepidation and curiosity. I’m not always a fan of what those boys like but I figure at least it will be interesting.
The Danish Offscreen, a reality story gone awry, won several awards including Young Cinema Award: 2006 Venice Film Festival and Best Actor: Danish Film Critics Association 2006 Bodil Awards (for star Nicolas Bro). From the description:
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| Nicolas Bro reigns supreme in the role of Nicolas Bro – a man intent on making a film about himself. His friend Christoffer Boe lends him a camera and tells him to record everything, a remark which Bro takes a little too literally. His constant filming succeeds in driving both his wife Lene and his friends nuts, and when Lene finally calls it a day and moves to Berlin, Nicolas – driven by the thought of getting her back and filming the entire process – begins his inevitable descent into disintegration. His self-monitoring is so hair-raisingly private (and creepy) that it becomes impossible to separate fact from fiction. |
Due to the Yom Kippur holiday my Friday and Saturday selections are limited. But don’t worry, everything of note that I wanted to see on those days is being shown later in the Festival.
Still more to come…