I leave soon for the Toronto International Film and I haven’t yet decided on which films to see. With over 300 films from 55 countries, topics range from Che Guevara to child molestation.
Here’s a sampling:
The Sea Wall
Set in 1931 in French Indochina, the story is infused with sexual and racial tensions creating a hothouse of emotion and passion.
A Cambodian Crash?
Me and Orson Welles
A teenager is hired to work with Welles on Broadway and falls for his girl, bringing egos and passions to a boil.
The prequel to War of the Worlds or the motivation?
What Doesn’t Kill You
A gritty, affecting drama about the streets of Boston.
Another Departed? Wait…I see this guy's in it:
A Much Sexier Departed!!
Mothers and Daughters
A trenchant exploration of several different facets of the mother-daughter connection filmed with clarity and courage.
Must first look up trenchant.
Detroit Metal City
A timid Japanese music geek moves from the countryside to Tokyo where he gets a gig as the front man for the notorious band Detroit Metal City (DMC).
Harajuku meets Spinal Tap?
Good
This deliberately provocative movie asks a simple question: what turned normal “good” Germans into people capable of sending millions to the gas chambers during the Second World War?
No thanks. A “good” question does not necessarily make for “good” cinema. But wait...oh, he's in this:
It could be goooood!!
Daytime Drinking
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a South Korean man gets hopelessly inebriated and finds himself walking in his underwear along mountainous roads where tigers are believed to roam at night. He rests at inhospitable guesthouses and kisses beautiful, strange girls, all while ambling towards an epic, clarifying hangover.
An Oriental Sideways?
The Beast in the Shadow
Brings French and Japanese cultures together in a bizarre and engrossing story about two writers who find their lives inextricably entangled in the dark sides of sexual impulse.
An Oriental Last Tango in Paris?
Pride and Glory
A moving saga about the sacrifices one family must make to stand among New York's finest.
Not another cop movie. Hmmm. It stars:
Might just have to see Ireland’s finest!!
Universal Love
An collage of images set to a haunting soundtrack by the band Naked Lunch, explores the inner landscapes of love that is strange, true, crazy and desperate.
A romantic Koyaanisqatsi with indie music?
9.99
A stop-motion animation about an unemployed, twenty-eight-year-old man who purchases a book that claims to contain the meaning of life – “all for the low price of $9.99”
Am I up for a philosophical Wallace & Gromit?
See my problem here? I'm soooo confused.
I may have to do what I did last year--choose the movies located closet to the best pubs.
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