The weather continues to hold out but I am afraid it won't be much longer. It is supposed to rain all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. But at least it hasn't rained the first week as it was supposed to be by Day 5.
Today I branched out into films from South Korea, Ireland and Russia. No 5-stars today but there were two 4-stars: "Poetry" from South Korea and "How I Ended My Summer Vacation" from Russia. The last was the best. Before today I had never seen a film as bad as "Snap" from Ireland. Bad everything. The first film "Man From Nowhere" was an action film from South Korea, something that country does particularly well. It was gory and violent, of course, but entertaining too. 3-stars limit for formula films.
"Poetry" was about a grandmother raising a spoiled slob of a brat who gets involved with 5 other boys in raping a girl in their high school until she commits suicide (all of which has happened by the start. The grandmother , on a search for beauty in her life while taking a poetry class, realizes she isn't comfortable just making a monetary settlement to quiet the mother of the dead girl.
"The Infidel" was a packed house on a Monday afternoon, not a common occurrence. It is the story of a lax Muslim man and his son who wants to marry the daughter of a fundamentalist Muslim and who must prove he is devote enough, but then he finds papers in his dead mother's house that he was adopted and Jewish at birth. I thought "La Cage aux Folles" or the like but the humour was lame and pointless. Perhaps that's why it's so popular.
Today I will see another 5 films, #s 25 to 29 of the festival. Germany and Georgia enter the fray. Must get going now as the line up even Monday morning is 150m long by 9:08.
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