Day 3 TIFF08 reviewed
September 7th, 2008
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?
- In the kitschy Winter Garden Theatre the world premiere of Disgrace from the famous novel of J.M. Coetzee. I never finished reading the novel, so I was fairly blank in watchin’ this movie. Well, John Malkovich was als always John Malkovich, what is terrific and bad at the same time. The central theme of the book/movie, the voluntarity of Lucy to been humbled, was not really convincing. “ Like a dog, Yes, like a dog.” And was the role of black dogman Petrus not too small? Still rating ***1/2 (of 5 possible)
- I already described my enthousiasm over the documentary about Youssou N’dour and after a night sleep, it rests. Particularly I liked the personal touch of the movie in combination with the after 9-11-2001 images, taken from the street – Church Street NYC- where I was just a few years ago. Rating ****.
- Three Monkeys of Cannes winning director Nuri Bilge Ceylan was a nice “small” movie on the matter of betrayal and faith with a very intriguing start – no spoilers here
-. Rating **** - And for the start of the day the Chinese Ocean Flame, a Romeo and Juliette drama, packed in a HongKong style, exaggerated crime scene. And a beautiful ocean. Rating ***.
