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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
CIFF: Day 6
We got to Tower City fairly early yesterday for the start of day 6, only to realize that not only was our theater not ready, but they hadn’t even put up the line for passholders or put up the film name on the board. That’s pretty darn early. We waited around for a while until they were ready to let us in for Forgetting Dad, then proceeded to sit in the theater for a while to wait.
I was really underwhelmed by Forgetting Dad. It felt like something was missing. Obviously there’s not a lot he could do to get his father on camera at the end, since he didn’t want to be on camera, but I feel like this was more good for him and not so interesting as a film otherwise. Just “eh.” I could have lived without seeing it.
After a break in the headquarters, we headed down to see The Happiest Girl in the World. The promo shot was much higher quality than the film itself. The film was dingy and grainy – not at all what I was led to expect from the picture. The story had promise, but was mostly driven by the fact that the main character was a teenager who was on her period and therefore even more emotional and less likely to be acquiescent than usual. I was underwhelmed by that one as well. It just didn’t live up to expectations.
We had a fairly brief break after that one, so we sat at a table in the food court for a little while and had a snack. Then we headed in to see Hipsters. Hipsters was amazing. I loved it. It was exactly like the description said it would be, and better. I had forgotten it was a musical, but I adored that aspect of it. I am glad we saw Disco & Atomic War before seeing this, because it assisted with our understanding of the film. I think I would recommend the film to anyone, even those who aren’t necessarily into foreign films. It was far and away the best film we saw yesterday.
Before the next film, we had another short break and used it to grab something to eat at the food court. Johnathan called his mom and we ended up inviting her to see a couple of films with us today. Then we headed in to see the German Shorts Program. After about three, we realized that short films perhaps aren’t for us. There were two animated ones that we saw that we just didn’t get, and then the others were a bit puzzling. We have two more shorts programs scheduled, and I think we’re going to go ahead and go see something else. They’re just not for us.
Instead of staying for the last film, we headed home. (We had planned to see Fire Keeper, but Johnathan wasn’t feeling it.) We stopped at Target and picked up the Toy Story blu-ray/DVD combo pack. They didn’t have Toy Story 2 so we went across the street to Wal-Mart to get that. Turns out that 2 is in a blu-ray case and 1 is in a DVD case. That’s going to bother the crap out of me. But we wanted to get both, and we’d already opened them both before we noticed. Oh well. So we came home early instead of watching movies in order to… watch a movie. I ended up getting very sleepy before we finished with it, though, so I went to bed. Got more sleep last night than I’ve gotten any other night this week! It was beautiful. Now I’m looking forward to another day of films that may or may not be great. Hopefully today won’t be a disaster since Johnathan’s mom is seeing some films with us.
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