I had no idea what to expect of todays films.
It was my day off and I just picked them because they were playing in Pathe 1, my home base for this festival.
I ended up checking tickets at the door and distribution the Audience Award valets anyway with my favorite crew.
I was happily surprised to see that they were actually pretty good movies!
Captein Ahab: A French story about a young orphan that grows up to become a Whale Hunting Captain. Loosing his leg in a fight with a giant white whale and destined to take revenge. Ring a bell? Sounds corny, but it isn’t. It’s very nicely done and I was bound to see the whole movie till the end, wondering how it would evolve.
3 days to forever: An endless looking journey of two rich kids that decided to drive to Jogjakarta themselves instead of having the driver take them. As the director told us after the movie, it’s hard to get lost when driving due to the 1 main road leading to the main city unless you really want to. Well, they wanted to. Brother and sister get to know each other, with highs and lows and there’s a sexual tension between them that is bound to be released at some point.
Help me eros: A dramatic story about a Taiwanese investor that has crashed and loses himself to drugs. Mixed with pretty explicit sex scenes. Despite the humerus opening telephone call, I wasn’t intrigued by it and soon lost interest. When the director held a Q&A after the movie he obviously had some explaining to do. He wend on and on about drugs and why he had chosen for certain elements in the film. The Q&A ended with a question from the audience that dazzled everyone…. “Why didn’t you make a different movie…”. My god, what kind of answer do you expect when asking such a question….
So far for the films, the atmosphere in the theater and at the employers area was great as usual!
I ended the day with a great diner at LOFT (Westelijk Handels Terrein) with my good friend Rob. Is was for the first time in the past 7 days that work actually came up again….
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