DAY 4 - /* C'est dégueulasse */ - Chansons d'amour & /* Movies are for people with time to kill */ - Lust, Caution

Just some quick notes for now until the rewrite

LUST, CAUTION
9:15 A.M.
SCOTIABANK 1

Lust, Caution which started off at 9:15 on a Sunday morning ! a beautiful drawn-out Ang Lee drama spoken in the Mandarin dialect set in Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942 and going back in time to the student days before the Chinese war with the Japanese and the resistance movement that arose and how a group of idealistic university students plot to assassinate a Chinese turncoat who now works for the Japanese government. One of the ladies makes the supreme sacrifice of her self in order to help the cause. The love scenes are long and intense and necessary to the dramatic confrontation between the leader of their resistance group and the girl.

STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
1:00 P.M.
SCOTIABANK 2

Starting Out in the Evening is a real revelation with Frank Langella as a distinguished well-mannered author of the 1960s on the verge of career rediscovery due to the adulation of a Master's English student Lauren Ambrose hoping to write her thesis on his work - and Lili Taylor as Langella's daughter who on the verge of turning 40 desperately wants to have a child. The director who was introducing the movie to the afternoon audience broke down as he tried to give his thanks to Frank Langella who actually showed up for the question and answer following.

CHANSONS D'AMOUR
3:00 P.M.
SCOTIABANK 1

C'est dégueulasse

I hate going to movies alone
- Ludivine Sagnier


Chansons d'amour a musical tribute with clear allusions to Jean-Luc Godard's A Bout de Souffle [Breathless] and Francois Truffaut - not quite as nice as Huit Femmes par Ozon, and marred by clumsy translations of the lyrics.

GIRL IN THE PARK
world premiere
6:00 P.M.
RYERSON

The disappearance of a child is a mother's worst nightmare - and the after effects of this tragedy in a family's life is the foundation for Sigourney Weaver's eclectic performance in Girl in the Park which is further reinforced by the even more bizarre presence of street kid survivor Kate Bosworth who Sigourney takes under her wing as hints are dropped that this may be the long lost daughter.


CHAOTIC ANA
9:15 P.M.
RYERSON

The Spanish movie Chaotica Ana is an over the top but well thought-out visual work of art from Julio Medem [ from Sexo y Lucia ] that will just leave you shocked and wondering what is going on - however the young Spanish actress Manuela Velles who was present for the screening is gorgeous and naked enough on screen.

Day 5 brings out the big guns in the schedule with
No Country for Old Men at 9 at Ryerson or
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford at 11 at the Elgin
[ or skip the last fifteen minutes or so of No Country to run down the block to the Elgin ]

Elizabeth : the Golden Age at the Elgin or Juno at the Paramount at 3 [ tickets for both ]
followed by the ultimate experience - TIFF with Catherine Breillat's La Vielle Maitresse at 6 p.m.
[ unless we can score a ticket for The Savages at 7 ]
then Carl Bessai's Normal at 9