five SIFF features to finish the film festival
My parents visited briefly today, between the first and second films of the day. It was nice to see them, as always.
As often happens toward the end of the film festival, "J" was too tired to watch all five of the films; she skipped the third and fifth. I dozed through parts of the fifth one myself, due to exhaustion rather than lack of interest.
Father (Otac) is a Serbian film about a man whose children are taken into foster care, essentially because he's poor. He goes on a quest to try to recover them. Excellent, but very Eastern European.
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street is a delightful documentary about how Sesame Street was brought into existence, and some history about its early days. Very good.
"T" watched this, and then was inspired to binge watch Sesame Street until he was too tired for anything more than a few pages of the second Harry Potter book.
Love Type D is a British comedy about a woman who discovers that she has a gene that makes her the one who is dumped in all of her relationships. She and fellow "Type D" people go on a quest for a cure. It was entertaining, but pretty much candy. Almost good.
Rosa's Wedding (La boda de Rosa) is a Spanish comedy drama about a middle-aged woman who decides to throw a wedding to herself. It's also the official closing night film. The rapid-fire vocabulary is clever, but the overall story is hit-and-miss. I rate it almost good.
My Missing Valentine (消失的情人節 ; Xiāoshī de qíngrén jié) is a Taiwanese romantic comedy about a man and a woman who experience time somewhat differently. For the woman, the rest of world moves just a little slower than she does, leaving her with occasions when time stops for her while the rest of the world catches up. For the man (and at least one other person), it's just the opposite. I rate the first half of the film very good, but I can't rate the whole film because I was too exhausted to watch the second half without occasional sleep gaps.
It will be nice to regain some of the time the film festival took up, but I'll miss the fun of binging on cool movies.
Quarantine report: home all day; two visitors (masked and outdoors).