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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
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3:52p - TIFF Day 3
O’ Horten: By Bent Hamer, the Norwegian director of the Kitchen Stories (excellent) and Factotum (mediocre), O’ Horten is a film about a train engineer named Odd Horten, on his last run before retirement. The film works well as a collection of vignettes but there were a few things that bugged me about it. For the first 20 minutes of the movie I thought it was a period piece set in the 1960s or ’70s but it turns out to be taking place in the present day. Plus some plot strands never quite got tied up, and the editing could have been tightened, but still worth seeing. 7
Vinyan: I saw the trailer for this a couple of months ago and I had been looking forward to it; the movie did not disappoint although it turned out that the trailer gave too much away. The film has lots of style, which I loved, as well as the Heart of Darkness tale of dread, the tragedy of parents who have lost a child and know that they couldn’t live with themselves unless they pursue the “slightest chance” that the child may still be alive. Strong performances by Rufus Sewell and Emmanuelle Béart. 9
Katia’s Sister [Het Zusje van Katia]: A movie about a girl, aged 13 according to the TIFF writeup although I would have thought she was 10 or even younger, whose devotion to her mother and older sister verges on pathological; in school when asked what she wants to be when she grows up all she says is “Katia’s sister”. It feels like a Dogme95 film although not certified as such. There is not much to the story, but the unusual style of acting makes this interesting to watch. 7
Deadgirl: A well-made but seriously twisted movie about two teenage boys who find a girl chained up in the basement of an abandoned mental hospital, and then discover that she is immortal. Aside from the supernatural elements and the extreme violence, the film is derivative of mid-1980s John Hughes but completely watchable on account of Jenny Spain’s inspired performance as the titular character. 7
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