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Aug. 8th, 2008 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labellementeuseSo, film festival! I've been doing the film festival this year in a reasonably amateur way and really enjoying it, but it's lonely at the top and I'm seeing three or four films tomorrow - anyone want to come with? Doing Up the Yangtze at 11:30 am, Frozen River at 1:30, Flight of the Red Balloon at 6:15 and then, if I feel like seeing a film I can probably download anyway and can get back to the Rialto in time, Be Kind, Rewind.
Films I've already seen: Persepolis, Vexille, Apron Strings.
Persepolis is a French movie based on two autobiographical graphic novels by an Iranian woman, Marjane Satrapi. The film was really excellent and captured the spirit and intent (and quirky art style) of the graphic novels; that said, since I'd read the novels, none of it was really new to me. But it's exciting that the film will give Satrapi's work a wider audience!
Vexille is this Japanese CGI movie about... OK, it's actually really weird and disturbing. it's set about 50 years in the future and it's about the titular supersoldier who goes to a Japan that has been cut off from the world for ten years after the UN decided that human androids should not be made and Japan went ahead and made them anyway. It's a bit of a downer for Japan - turns out all the humans in Japan were given an injection that eventually turned them into robots, most of the counrtry is desolate, and there's a tiny enclave of not-yet-robots living primitively waiting to die, basically. VERY pessimistic. In the end Vexille helps the Japanese soon-to-be-robots commit suicide and destroy the evil corporations who gave the injection; she also rescues her (boring) boyfriend, hooray! Er. But, you know, it was interesting, and I mostly went to see it to think about in the context of my SF class.
The last one is Apron Strings, which is probably going to be the only NZ film I see all festival (there aren't many NZ films, weirdly.) First off, it was prefaced by a Roseanne Liang short film, Take 3, which was really funny and pretty indescribable but if you get a chance to see it, take it, it's great. OK! Apron Strings is about two families, one Sikh Indian/New Zealand, and one Pakeha. It's about estranged relatives and relatives that are taking advantage of you; it's theoretically about the relationships between two mothers and their sons, but it's also about
one mother and her sister, one mother and her daughter, racism, South Auckland, cultural diversity, etc etc. It's really good, funny and serious, and I highly recommend it.
Films I've already seen: Persepolis, Vexille, Apron Strings.
Persepolis is a French movie based on two autobiographical graphic novels by an Iranian woman, Marjane Satrapi. The film was really excellent and captured the spirit and intent (and quirky art style) of the graphic novels; that said, since I'd read the novels, none of it was really new to me. But it's exciting that the film will give Satrapi's work a wider audience!
Vexille is this Japanese CGI movie about... OK, it's actually really weird and disturbing. it's set about 50 years in the future and it's about the titular supersoldier who goes to a Japan that has been cut off from the world for ten years after the UN decided that human androids should not be made and Japan went ahead and made them anyway. It's a bit of a downer for Japan - turns out all the humans in Japan were given an injection that eventually turned them into robots, most of the counrtry is desolate, and there's a tiny enclave of not-yet-robots living primitively waiting to die, basically. VERY pessimistic. In the end Vexille helps the Japanese soon-to-be-robots commit suicide and destroy the evil corporations who gave the injection; she also rescues her (boring) boyfriend, hooray! Er. But, you know, it was interesting, and I mostly went to see it to think about in the context of my SF class.
The last one is Apron Strings, which is probably going to be the only NZ film I see all festival (there aren't many NZ films, weirdly.) First off, it was prefaced by a Roseanne Liang short film, Take 3, which was really funny and pretty indescribable but if you get a chance to see it, take it, it's great. OK! Apron Strings is about two families, one Sikh Indian/New Zealand, and one Pakeha. It's about estranged relatives and relatives that are taking advantage of you; it's theoretically about the relationships between two mothers and their sons, but it's also about
one mother and her sister, one mother and her daughter, racism, South Auckland, cultural diversity, etc etc. It's really good, funny and serious, and I highly recommend it.
