Now the BAFICI's over...
...I'm back! Seriously, I need an assistant to type my entries for me...or even better, I should have a chip implanted in my brain, so I could communicate with my kewboard telepathically...I couldn't be anymore lazy!
Before I satart rambling about the movies I saw (don't worry, it will all be under a cut for your sake:P), brief newsflash:
1) Did I mention I restarted my English classes? I'm (almost) positively sure I forgot...CPE, here I come! (Ok, not right now, but maybe in 2 years time?^^'). It might sound weird, but I missed my English techer SO much!
2) Last Wednesday was my monthly cooking get totgether with my lovely Jesi Jess justjesi ...last month we did cookies, now it was muffins time! Turns out they aren't that hard to prepare, and we work perfectly as a team! We baked 6 DOZENS OF MUFFINS! Un-freaking-believable!
3) Met my friend Marcos on Friday and got to see his new apartment (at last! He moved out in...January?), where he's living with his sis and 2 cute-yet-scary wiener dogs (probably the only person in the world freaked out by a wiener dog, but one of them was a puppy, and he barked and jumped at me just too much...let's say I wasn't very welcomed at firstxP). Had a chat and dinned Arabian food...couldn't have gotten any better!
And now, ladies and gentlemen...da movies!
Antonio das Mortes: o dragao da maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro: as you can imagine, one of the main reasons I chose watching this late 60s film was the title, lolxD. And the fact that my Audiovisuals lecturer had mentioned its director- Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha-in one of her classes. Apparently, its a sequel, but I don't think it's that necessary to watch the previous movie (at least I didn't!). Personally, I loved it...the music, the colors, the frames, everything was perfect. Sebastian simply hated it. I can't tell exactly why, but it reminded me of Herzog, so if you've seen any of his movies and liked them, you may like Glauber Rocha's as well:P
La reine des pommes: you've GOT to find this French comedy, it's unbelievably funny! A girl gets dumped by her boyfriend and tries to forget him by getting tangled with 3 different men, each one weirder/quirkier than the other. The part where she sings and mocks musicals and heroines from romantic novels pays the whole thing off!
McDull, Kung Fu Kindergarten: couldn't help myself, and went to see this adorable cartoon. McDull is a Chinese pigglet who lives with his Mom, a chef wannabe who in order to pursue her dream moves to another province and signs his kid up for a kung fu boarding school. The characters are really cute, and the drawings are excellent...there are parts where they even combine 2D and 3D! There's a whole series of movies on this piggie, so I may try to see the rest:P
Due vite per caso: didn't wow me, but it was a god one, especially considering it was the director's opera prima. You guys, I didn't have to read the subtitles, felt so good! And I understood everything the director said before and after the projection (yup, in some cases we're lucky enough to count with the director's presence...the translator who was with him sucked, btw). The movie plays with the "what if..." factor (so to speak): it tells the story of a guy who accidentally crashes a police car (and gets beaten up by the cops), and then retells it, only that this time the guy doesn't have that car accident. In between, there's a reflection on Italian youth nowadays (which moved me a little bit, because their problems were exactly the same as ours...finantial inestability= eternal adolescence and incapability to grow up and leave the nest) and violence in the streeets.
Red White and Blue: gore(ish) movie by creepy English filmmaker (look him up, his name's Simon Rumley...with that look, no wonder he's making horror films!). I usually don't like this genre, but Sebastian really wanted to see it, and in the end it wasn't that bad. A guy finds out he got AIDS from a slutty chick, Erica, and with a little help of his friends, kidnaps her and murders her. Too bad he didn't know there was this other guy, Nate, who's obssesed with Erica, who's determined to make him pay...In conclussion, karma is a bloody bitch (in every sense).
Ensayo (fragmentos de Sarah Kane): the one and only Argentine movie I saw within the festival. A documentary on English play writer Sarah Kane, with recordings of rehersals of her play Cleansed here as a starting point. I've never been to the theater to see plays of her, but I've read 4.48 Psychosis and immediately fall for her. Sad news is that her plays are impossible to get here (at least in their original language). Bummer.
And that would be it for now (I'm still missing 6 more films, but will write about them on another entry, don't wanna bore you even more. Coookies for everyone that read the entire entry! Or even better...muffins!:P)
Before I satart rambling about the movies I saw (don't worry, it will all be under a cut for your sake:P), brief newsflash:
1) Did I mention I restarted my English classes? I'm (almost) positively sure I forgot...CPE, here I come! (Ok, not right now, but maybe in 2 years time?^^'). It might sound weird, but I missed my English techer SO much!
2) Last Wednesday was my monthly cooking get totgether with my lovely Jesi Jess justjesi ...last month we did cookies, now it was muffins time! Turns out they aren't that hard to prepare, and we work perfectly as a team! We baked 6 DOZENS OF MUFFINS! Un-freaking-believable!
3) Met my friend Marcos on Friday and got to see his new apartment (at last! He moved out in...January?), where he's living with his sis and 2 cute-yet-scary wiener dogs (probably the only person in the world freaked out by a wiener dog, but one of them was a puppy, and he barked and jumped at me just too much...let's say I wasn't very welcomed at firstxP). Had a chat and dinned Arabian food...couldn't have gotten any better!
And now, ladies and gentlemen...da movies!
Antonio das Mortes: o dragao da maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro: as you can imagine, one of the main reasons I chose watching this late 60s film was the title, lolxD. And the fact that my Audiovisuals lecturer had mentioned its director- Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha-in one of her classes. Apparently, its a sequel, but I don't think it's that necessary to watch the previous movie (at least I didn't!). Personally, I loved it...the music, the colors, the frames, everything was perfect. Sebastian simply hated it. I can't tell exactly why, but it reminded me of Herzog, so if you've seen any of his movies and liked them, you may like Glauber Rocha's as well:P
La reine des pommes: you've GOT to find this French comedy, it's unbelievably funny! A girl gets dumped by her boyfriend and tries to forget him by getting tangled with 3 different men, each one weirder/quirkier than the other. The part where she sings and mocks musicals and heroines from romantic novels pays the whole thing off!
McDull, Kung Fu Kindergarten: couldn't help myself, and went to see this adorable cartoon. McDull is a Chinese pigglet who lives with his Mom, a chef wannabe who in order to pursue her dream moves to another province and signs his kid up for a kung fu boarding school. The characters are really cute, and the drawings are excellent...there are parts where they even combine 2D and 3D! There's a whole series of movies on this piggie, so I may try to see the rest:P
Due vite per caso: didn't wow me, but it was a god one, especially considering it was the director's opera prima. You guys, I didn't have to read the subtitles, felt so good! And I understood everything the director said before and after the projection (yup, in some cases we're lucky enough to count with the director's presence...the translator who was with him sucked, btw). The movie plays with the "what if..." factor (so to speak): it tells the story of a guy who accidentally crashes a police car (and gets beaten up by the cops), and then retells it, only that this time the guy doesn't have that car accident. In between, there's a reflection on Italian youth nowadays (which moved me a little bit, because their problems were exactly the same as ours...finantial inestability= eternal adolescence and incapability to grow up and leave the nest) and violence in the streeets.
Red White and Blue: gore(ish) movie by creepy English filmmaker (look him up, his name's Simon Rumley...with that look, no wonder he's making horror films!). I usually don't like this genre, but Sebastian really wanted to see it, and in the end it wasn't that bad. A guy finds out he got AIDS from a slutty chick, Erica, and with a little help of his friends, kidnaps her and murders her. Too bad he didn't know there was this other guy, Nate, who's obssesed with Erica, who's determined to make him pay...In conclussion, karma is a bloody bitch (in every sense).
Ensayo (fragmentos de Sarah Kane): the one and only Argentine movie I saw within the festival. A documentary on English play writer Sarah Kane, with recordings of rehersals of her play Cleansed here as a starting point. I've never been to the theater to see plays of her, but I've read 4.48 Psychosis and immediately fall for her. Sad news is that her plays are impossible to get here (at least in their original language). Bummer.
And that would be it for now (I'm still missing 6 more films, but will write about them on another entry, don't wanna bore you even more. Coookies for everyone that read the entire entry! Or even better...muffins!:P)