A truly excellent indie arthouse film. Really strange plot and you never know what is “real”. Shame in a way that the only chance to see stuff like this is at festivals.
Category Archives: IFFR17
Mole Song – Hong Kong Capriccio
With fond memories of seeing the first Mole Song movie up in the gods at a packed Schouwburg in 2014, I was looking forward to seeing this as my last movie of IFFR2017. This year I’ve seen almost 40 movies, smashing all previous records and overall it’s been great in terms of film quality.
I tried to get some other people to come see this, being in a group at Oude Luxor is always fun, ultimately I ended up seeing most of this on my own, with people being taken ill and sitting behind me without realising. Hey ho that’s how it goes, I guess one reason I’ve seen so many movies this year is because I’ve focused more on film and less on friends.
In terms of the film itself, well it was definitely too long and only really funny in parts, but still a great closing film. You can’t really ask for more than Takashi Miike. Will there be a part three? Will I be back at IFFR? Of course, of course.
The eye’s dream
Waaaaay too much eyeball licking and chomping action for one movie.
Secret defense
Hmmm maybe the first film this year that i would describe as shit. Just a mainstream sexist thriller which could easily become a naked gun style spoof.
Why did the drug dealer become muslim? Why have women naked in sex scenes and not men?
The last family
But not quite the last film. A 9am showing in cinerama4, one of the worlds best screens.
Strange how the depiction of the schizo son reminded me strongly of good friends, in terms of mannerism and gaze.
The film won me over with how it depicts time passing, little touches like the mum getting glasses and the reel2reel players changing to tape.
Oratorio for prague
The film that put Nemec into exile. Apparently it also made him world famous coz the images were circulated worldwide.
The introducer told us that they had basically finished their happy film about the Prague Spring when the tanks rolled in so then they kept filming and ended up making a very different film.
Train to busan
A wellmade zombie flick 🙂
EDIT in a year of great films, this one has stayed with me and might well be my festival tip .. writer/director sang-ho yeon is definitely worth keeping an eye on…
Nirvanna the band the show
This was awesome. No better way to process iffr insanity ( ?what day is it anymore? ) than with a totally nuts indie film.. which actually appears to be a canadian vice mockumentary tv show so i can watch more WOOP
Much like search for rocky II or actor martinez or los territorios there are several realities going on at once. With hilarious consequences!
I really liked the disrupted flashbacks and the fone dropping incident (thats when the audience lost it).
Now theres a jazzy band playing in the cinerama foyer – gotta love the IFFR!
Taste of ink
It took me a while to work out what i think about this. I didnt really like the way the plot developed and by the end it was ridiculous.
I stayed for the Q&A, which shed some light on things since an actor talked in a rather pretentious fashion about the director opening up a space of rich exploration for the cast. Oh luvvie how marvellous!
But here is the thing. Despite the film being realistically shot this desire of the director to have a loose plot and to let the actors go where they want means that in the end the narrative nosedives and it goes implausible. Shame!
Three
Wow much balletic violence at the end there. I realised halfway through that we were basically watching a rehash of drug war (seen at iffr13). And indeed the cop ended up handcuffed to the baddie again. But both movies by Johnnie To are superb!!
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