A documentary about another documentary is an odd thing. This is not just any documentary though, it is about Shoah (1985), Claude Lanzmann’s 9 1/2 hour epic made over 12 years.
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I keep forgetting one of the joys of MIFF is seeing an Antipodean documentary about a person, having them there at the screening and finding out they’re a really decent person. The MIFF trifecta.
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Kasimir Burgess made a documentary Franklin a few years back, that I really enjoyed. With that film, he used a central story and narration to help us understand several threads about activism, nature, and acceptance of identity.
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I think I probably knew this was going to be a depressing film because it was about low caste farmers in Rajasthan fighting against corrupt officials.
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Can a documentary be too quirkily perfect? This might be a good example of one, where, after thoroughly enjoying every perfectly framed moment and oddball character, I began to wonder if the whole thing was constructed like a Christopher Guest mockumentary.
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I really enjoyed this film, although afterwards I felt guilty about it. How can someone so toxic be so adorable?
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Director Paige Bethmann gives us the gentle story of Ku Stephens, a young runner from the Pailute people in Nevada.
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I really love Kelly Reichardt films. Even the ones that don’t seem to be about anything, like Showing Up (2022), somehow draw me in with the beauty of moments and the delicate journey of quite ordinary characters.
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Cinema Nova is showing restored Akira Kurosawa films and there are many that I haven’t seen. This one just happened to fit into my schedule and with a 9:15 pm screening in one of the small basement cinemas, I was kept company by a ragtag assortment of film nerds.
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I didn’t expect to feel quite so gutted by what seemed to be an ‘odd couple in Poland’ navel-gazing by Jesse Eisenberg.
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