{"id":5102,"date":"2012-04-21T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T15:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=5102"},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T21:48:40","slug":"wi-film-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wi-film-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"WI Film Fest: Weds., Thurs. & Friday movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first film of the Fest for us, about an Algerian refugee who has washed up in Quebec. He takes over as the teacher for a class at an elementary school – their teacher committed suicide by hanging herself in the classroom, where one of the kids found her. All the kids in the class really need a hug, but because this is the 21st century, none of the teachers is allowed to give them one.<\/p>\n

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Extremely arty – directed by Guy Maddin<\/a>, who I did not know much about, but he seems quite popular among film aficionados. To me, the film was like a moving, b&w version of the artists’ haunted house<\/a> at my house last fall – people dressed in vintage clothes, moving about in vintage interiors, and saying short meaningful phrases to each other, like “I remember”, and “Quick, lay her down she’s filling up” – about the drowned girl who was nonetheless walking around. With Jason Patric<\/a> and Isabella Rosellini<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Girls & boys in striped shirts and skinny jeans. Scenes of Paris in the late 1960s (1970s, really) intercut with environmental pollution – dirty water spewing out of pipes and trees being felled. All with the soft look and colors of Kodachrome – like when people scan their childhood photos<\/a> to post on Facebook. Mark liked that all the skinny girls had normal-size breasts.<\/p>\n

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Mostly everyone’s favorite so far – the story of Dom, a night clerk at a little hotel in Le Havre, who meets a fairy named Fiona who grants him 3 wishes. Lots of physical humor, like Dom & Fiona on a scooter chasing a car with their baby on a cushion sliding around on top of the trunk. There’re also a couple of great dance scenes, one underwater and one on a rooftop.<\/p>\n

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Crooked cops and drug dealers chasing each other through a disco. In French which made it more interesting – I liked how the cop who polices other cops was flic des flics<\/em> instead of maybe IAD – internal affairs division – as we’d say. We had to sit in the front row, though, and my neck really hurt by the end.<\/p>\n

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Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Pacquin) at 20 playing 17, an upper west side exclusive private school girl who probably causes an accident by running alongside a bus, talking to the driver, distracting him, so he runs a redlight and kills a woman crossing the street with her groceries. It’s directed by Kenneth Lonnergan<\/a>, who also directed You can count on me<\/a> – and Mark Ruffalo and Matthew Broderick are in both movies. J. Smith-Cameron, who’s also been a character in True Blood (Sam Merlotte’s white trash shape shifter mom) plays Anna’s mom who’s an actress, in lots of small plays in NYC. There’s a funny scene where the mom is talking about how she’d briefly been on a TV show and it just paid the bills – foreshadowing that she & Anna would both be on True Blood a few years later.<\/p>\n

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