(or two, or three, or four...)
- Legenda o Suramskoi Kreposti (The Legend of Suram Fortress)
- Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza)
- A Serious Man
- An Education
(Kinoglaz.fr, info-palestine.net, The Austin Chronicle, Critic.de)
My favourite? Definitely A Serious Man, all about uncertainty, doubt, and trying to find answers when spirituality can't offer them. I don't think you need to be Jewish to "understand" this movie. It helps, however, to be a little bit of a nihilist. (It also helps to "get" physics.) No wonder this film is so popular in Germany ;)
For its acting, An Education was brilliant...definitely an escapist kind of movie, but you also leave feeling a little disillusioned, or, as Carey Mulligan's character, Jenny, says at one point: "I feel old. But not very wise." I couldn't shake the fact that Peter Sarsgaard was *woah* creepy, too...
The first film, The Legend of Suram Fortress, which I saw at the Berlinale, was a Georgian nationalist fable that propagated the kind of exoticized folklore that Soviet-era films loved to do. But SO pretty. Especially Georgian writing --> ამბავი სურამის ციხისა (the title in Georgian).
Oh, and Aisheen? Meh. Kind of disappointing actually, even though I did get to see it in West Berlin's coolest cinema, the Delphi Filmpalast.
The only good thing about the film was this awesome featured hip-hop group, DARG Team. I felt the movie couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a documentary or not.
A trip:
(or: > 24 hrs. in Bern and Zurich)
Switzerland is kind of of on everyone's shit list right now, from Libyan leader Qaddafi calling for a global jihad against the little mountain state to German tax evaders sweating it out because they fear their financial secrets are no longer safe in Swissy.
Me? I really just can't understand what they're saying.
More pictures here.
An exhibit:
Bestiarium by Walton Ford at the Hamburger Bahnhof.
Walton Ford is originally from Larchmont, NY, and he specializes in large, jewel-toned, striking images of animals engaging in violent acts. The exhibit was all nature and brutality and the tenuous distinction between humans and animals. It was a little bit like Audubon gone to the dark side. Absolutely stunning.
A[nother costume] party:
I went as Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction.
Am now considering dyeing my hair ;) What do you think?
The party was cool, a very international crowd (Americans, Frenchies, Mongolians ;) and we listened to Balkan Beat Box and Die Antwoord. So, a fun night!
ALSO, IT'S FINALLY SPRING!!!1!
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