MIFF 2013 - Day 12
EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY
Can you make a messy divorce into a really funny black comedy? Yes. Marius rocks up to his ex-wife's house (formerly his house) to pick up his daughter Sofia for a short holiday. But the wife isn't home, just his former mother-in-law and the new boyfriend. And the boyfriend won't let him take his daughter out until the ex-wife gets home. A war of words escalates into accidental violence and the whole thing ends up as a farcial hostage drama as Marius ends up with his ex-wife and her new boyfriend bound and gagged in the living room while the police knock on the door. It's very funny, and makes the wise decision to not take anyone's side. Both Marius and his former wife are fairly terrible people, each refusing to acknowledge the ways in which they contributed to the collapse of the marriage and their current sorry state. Bleak and very entertaining.
GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA
Preceded by a short doco on how The New York Times underreported the Holocaust, and the circumstances surrounding it, the Times also gets a bit of a bash in the main feature. They refused to review Vidal's novels, for reasons detailed in the doco. But that's an incidental detail in a film that tells of the richly lived life of Gore Vidal. His writing, his politics, and above all his wit. Few people were or are as analytical, outspoken and sharp as him. A presence that will be sorely missed.
PADAK
Korean animations seem to all rail against the bullying conformity of Korean society. At least, the ones I've seen recently. It's a grim outing, and will put you off sushi in a serious way. The story of a mackerel caught and kept in a tank outside a fish restaurant, and her fight against a flatfish who believes that hiding and playing dead is better than trying to break free and escape back to the ocean. It runs on slightly too long, it's dramatic ending coming a few minutes before it actually concludes. But the sort-of-happy ending doesn't diminish the point. It's definitely worth a look.
Can you make a messy divorce into a really funny black comedy? Yes. Marius rocks up to his ex-wife's house (formerly his house) to pick up his daughter Sofia for a short holiday. But the wife isn't home, just his former mother-in-law and the new boyfriend. And the boyfriend won't let him take his daughter out until the ex-wife gets home. A war of words escalates into accidental violence and the whole thing ends up as a farcial hostage drama as Marius ends up with his ex-wife and her new boyfriend bound and gagged in the living room while the police knock on the door. It's very funny, and makes the wise decision to not take anyone's side. Both Marius and his former wife are fairly terrible people, each refusing to acknowledge the ways in which they contributed to the collapse of the marriage and their current sorry state. Bleak and very entertaining.
GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA
Preceded by a short doco on how The New York Times underreported the Holocaust, and the circumstances surrounding it, the Times also gets a bit of a bash in the main feature. They refused to review Vidal's novels, for reasons detailed in the doco. But that's an incidental detail in a film that tells of the richly lived life of Gore Vidal. His writing, his politics, and above all his wit. Few people were or are as analytical, outspoken and sharp as him. A presence that will be sorely missed.
PADAK
Korean animations seem to all rail against the bullying conformity of Korean society. At least, the ones I've seen recently. It's a grim outing, and will put you off sushi in a serious way. The story of a mackerel caught and kept in a tank outside a fish restaurant, and her fight against a flatfish who believes that hiding and playing dead is better than trying to break free and escape back to the ocean. It runs on slightly too long, it's dramatic ending coming a few minutes before it actually concludes. But the sort-of-happy ending doesn't diminish the point. It's definitely worth a look.
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