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"CIFF Day Eight and Ten"
So lets see, at this rate I will be done with the CIFF coverage around the time of next year's festival. Before I go on I should point out I just watched Ratcatcher and it is awesome.
OK. On Day 8 I had tickets for three films, but work-related issues forced me to cancel two. The one I saw is called Hush! Its basically footage a St. Petersburg resident shot out his window over the span of a year spliced together into a movie. Much of it revolves around a section of road that kind of becomes its own entity as it goes from a minor repair to a sinkhole flooded with water after a main breaks. When I first read the festival description I thought it there was a lot that could be done with a film like this, and only some of it is. What I really would have liked to see is two or three residents of the street in various situations, interacting, doing the whole "oh what a tangled web we weave" thing. Unfortunately outside of the road construction there is very little to tie the whole thing together. It is all somewhat random. There were a lot of Koyaanisqatsi-esque environmental shots which were pretty nice but I can't say they added much to anything. Disappointing, although it made me think about the various ways you could do something like this well. The two films I missed were Maria and All Tomorrow's Parties. Reports I heard about ATP ranged from mediocre to outright bad, so I didn't mind missing that. I didn't really hear anything about Maria, so I don't know what I missed there.
Day Nine had no film viewing, a totally packed Saturday. Sunday I snuck out to see The Time Of The Wolf, the new Michael Haneke film. This was not originally scheduled, but they brought it in at the last minute as a replacement for something else. The first 40 minutes or so of this are outright stunning, and make the whole thing worth the price of admission. There is a slow reveal of a situation that grows in scope even as the environment and mood around the participants shrinks. This all comes to a head in a series of scenes shot in a darkened forest which are about as effective a use of photography in film as I've ever seen. My mouth was literally hanging open. Unfortunately I have to agree with most of the other reports I've read which say that after this the film kind of flies off the tracks. There are various effective scenes, most of them revolving around the three children, but as a whole it kind of meanders and wanders. Still this is well worth the price of admission, if for no other reason than to bask in Haneke's formal mastery. The two closing shots are stunners. The whole thing kept reminding me of Tarkovsky's Stalker in a variety of ways - theme, mood, use of sound and space. Great watching, even if it doesn't completely work. Last I heard this has no distribution which is a fucking shame, however I can't imagine it will stay that way for long given that Haneke's last two films were pretty well received from what I know.
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