The winner of the Toronto Public Award – and I was, in Ryerson Theatre on the 3th row one of them, this amazing, beautiful movie has a big chance to be also the public favorite in Rotterdam.
A real feel good movie, you w’ll love it.
Good intention number 1: This year I go to see all the Tiger Awards movies. The list of 2009:
À l’ouest de Pluton, Henri Bernadet, Myriam Verreault, Canada
Be Calm and Count to Seven, Ramtin Lavafipour, Iran
Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly, Edwin, Indonesië
Breathless, Yang Ik-June, Zuid-Korea
The Dark Harbour,
Naito Takatsugu, Japan
Dogging: A Love Story, Simon Ellis, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Floating in Memory, Peng Tao, China
The Hungry Ghosts, Michael Imperioli,
Verenigde Staten
No puedo vivir sin ti, Leon Dai, Taiwan
Schottentor, Caspar Pfaundler, Oostenrijk
Sois sage, Juliette Garcias, Frankrijk/Denemarken
The Strength of Water, Armagan Ballantyne,
Nieuw-Zeeland/Duitsland
Turistas, Alicia Scherson, Chili
Wrong Rosary, Mahmut Fazil Coskun, Turkije
John Malkovich, Youssou N’dour, both present and in the movie, two world premieres, the 2008 winner of Cannes’ best director award, and that all in in one day: Let’s say it could be worse, isn’t it?
-. Rating ****5:30 PM: and then there was the line. Used to the chaotic mess of people for the start of a movie at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the smaller brother of TIFF, I was totally surprised by that tidy line of waiting people, half an hour before the start already far around the corner of the block from Church Street.
My first movie of the festival was an impressive, touching one, Plus Tard, je comprendas of the Israeli director Amos Gitai. It was a classic movie about the great drama of the 20th century in the context of a French/Jewish family , based on the autobiography of Jérôme Cléments, president of Arte, the European cultural TV Channel.
Most impressing in the movie was what not been said: about the choices made in the famliy, about the Holocaust. And the image of almost childlike happy German and French policemen and soldiers, finding what there where looking for in a small French village in the Vichy- south: an older Jewish couple, says more about the madness of mankind then other images with brutal violence.
Grand old lady Jeanne Moreau, 80 now, played the role of the Jewish (grand) mother in an very convincing way, showing all the dilemmas of those who survived the Holocaust.
(photo: international film festival rotterdam)
It was a nice festival, only a few disappointments, good quality, though not much sky-high. 39 movies watched, My top 5:
Still to be seen:
Oeps, that’s a lot…
Yesterday i saw the Cameron Jamie with Melvins Trilogy “BB, Krankly Klaus and Spook House” in a really sold out – 917 people – Old Luxor. It was the combination that did it. Without the movie i should never be thrilled by The Melvins , and without the music I was probably walked out after half an hour. But now i was fascinated from start to finish. And also the movies were weird. Ok, last year i attented for the first time a Halloween party, but that was a very decent one comparing what you could see in the movie: no freyed eyeballs, no guillotines, no beheaded, no hanging, no graveyeard, as all you could see in this movie. And this Austrian Klaus was really krankly..
I have seen till now 3 Tiger Award films and i am turned on about what i saw till now.
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;I almost regret already that i have choosen to write this blog in a not native language. I am looking for the exact words to describe my very mixed feelings about this movie. But i will try.TBS is the dutch system for detaining criminal people with a psychiatric disease, in forensic centres for what in the old days used to be named “psychopats” . It is in The Netherlands a controversial system, mostly because of the escape with new crimes of some detainees in the last years. Many people in the Netherlands think about it as a very “soft” system, though in reality it can be very cruel, especially when prisoners are goiing to a longstay regime, in practice most times for the rest of their lives. Exactly this theme is the subject of the movie of Pieter Kuipers and i was very curious about this movie. But at the end of the movie I was very disappointed, even angry, because i found the movie completely implausible. In scenario, in facts and also in characters. Now i can’t find the exact words why, so that i will do later, without beiing a spoiler of the content of this movie.
