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08 Cairo International Film Festival :: DAY 1 & 2 - Report

DAY 1

The first film in my 'watch list' of this year's CIFF was a German film Der Rote Punkt (The Red Spot).

It was about a Japanese woman and what seems to be a missing piece of her life. Unfortunately, when the movie ends, neither she or the viewer felt that the hole has been filled, the mystery has been answered (what is it to be answered? that's actually a question I asked myself after the credit rolls). While this film has got a nice tone to get along with it, or if it was beautiful to watch, the script was somehow seemingly pointless. While it's got something right (mostly involved with cross-culture experience), most of it just didn't work out as strong as it should be (the sub-plotlines). This film fails trying to convince us to see that what she's looking for, is something really important to her life, something that will change her life. What started out to be something passionate, interesting, ended up with unsatisfied result. And there's nothing to talk about the acting or the directing, either. B-

Next was Loss, from Lithuania.

Great flick. If somehow too well-calculated, too much of fwrd/bckwrd flashback style. Many rooms could have been easily improved, but a nice, quite-powerful film nonetheless. B

I finished my first day with the highlight of the festival. A so-much-talk-about Italian film, Gomorra.

Not a masterpiece, but damn great. What seems to be 'lacked-in-style' is actually a realistic look of the world of crime. 'Gomorrah' is intense in every minute with a taut direction and the entirely great performances. It's bleak, sincere and angry. Likely to make you feel having no desire to live in this world anymore. A/A-

DAY 2

Go With Peace, Jamil - A taut drama/thriller with the strong message of the subject rarely to be found in any film. If slightly empty in plot or its characters. B

Boogie - To my surprise, this was my favorite film of the festival. True that it has been just two days. But I doubt anything can top this drama from Romania (the great). I was actually going to skip this. Glad that I didn't. Superb in every way. A

okayyyyyy 8 days to go!!

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