One part theater piece, there are losts of monlogues, and one part cinema meditation,there are altering aspect ratios, A STORY ABOUT YOU works best in bits. This is a film of finely crafted pieces where each sequence shines perfectly, unfortunately the pieces don't truly work together. It feels like they didn't know how to tie eveything up. Don't get me wrong the film isn't bad, but for a film that contains some of the great movie moments of the year only being good over all it's a disappointment.
Still this is worth seeing if you can.
SANTA ZETA
A woman hunts pedophiles, like the one that killed her sister, only to find the one that was responsible for her sisters death, close at hand.
Good but not great film has some great sequences in it. The trouble is that the narrative is a bit too familiar. We've seen the overall story before too many times. It's not bad but the thrill of the sequences isn't maintained in every bit of the film.
THREE COLORS: PAN AFRICA
An anthology about Black existence, each color coded to the colors black, red and green.
This film didn't really work for me. It's not the stories themselves, but more the film's insistnce on being about a greater truth. The film wants us to know this is an important tale and it tell it's story a bit too intellectually which undercuts the heart.
MATAPANKI
A young man drinks a drink and gets superpowers which creates all sorts of problems. Live action black and white cartoon, this is a kind of living comic book. Its a feature film that riffs on both comic conventions and social ideas with mixed reasults. While by no means bad the film can be very hit or miss. Its a film you will most certainly enjoy but which you will end up liking for its big swing at trying something new as oppossed to hitting it out of the park.
THE KEY
This is an uneven, based on a true story, tale of homeless people who learn to get buy living in the homes of people who are not in their apartments all the time. There is something to this tale, but the style of the telling andbroad sense of humor at times didn't work for me.
WHISPERINGS OF THE MOON
An actress returns to Cambodia after the death of her father and reconnects with an old lover.
Awkward inde drama has something in the central tale but it's wrapped in a style that leaves the wrong sort of silences and moments. Yes, alot of this works, but also alot of it dosn't, frequently because things are not said at the right time.
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