THE STRANGER
Recommended. About a perfect psychopath. Made by a very smart girl. Just see how she unravels his slick lies.
Then I took another break in the festival to see:
BOOK CLUB
Watchable. About sex lives of people around the age of 70 but much better than recent "Finding Your Feet". Fun to watch. With Candice Bergen - fantastic as a federal judge who adjourns a hearing because her son is on the phone, Andy Garcia - a pilot who asks a woman out by making a cabin crew member take down her details: "We need your full name and address, your phone number, your email address and which evenings you have free.", Don Johnson, Jane Fonda - both as fit as ever, Diane Keaton. Accompanied by insignificant music, with a schematic, predictable plot, but full of raunchy jokes.
And back at the:
15TH DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY FILM FESTIVAL 2018
BREXITANNIA
Watchable. Black and white, consisting of dull utterances one after another, in similar - nearly all British, obviously - accents. The black and white picture makes all skin colours similar even when you hear them talk about racism. At least it does provide an array of explanations. I'm no longer shocked the majority voted out.
HATETS VUGGE (GOLDEN DAWN GIRLS)
Watchable. It confirms all the social psychology findings about hate speech leading to violence and about being in denial. Nothing new.
L'AVOCAT DE LA TERREUR (TERROR'S ADVOCATE)
Watchable. He defended the Serpent and several African dictators but the film deals at length with the cases of Algerian Djamila or Magdalena Kopp of Baader-Meinhof with both of who he became infatuated. It mentions his defense of Klaus Barbie only briefly. At the same time you get the explanation of him having been treated unjustly because of his half-Vietnamese origins, his dislike of bulling as well as of his first defense where facing a hoodlum he thought he might have been just like him. He's a shrewd lawyer. Still, it's 138 minutes of talking heads with little insight.
DESERT OF THE REAL
Watchable. Half the audience walked out, most in the first half an hour. The film's complete chaos. The few deserted cities are so eerie each could form a set of a science fiction movie. The war and arms fair footage is inspiring too. The selfie and social media side is total rubbish. It's all mixed up incoherently. Ah, I've learnt there are a few Venices recreated all over the world, mostly in China.
MOUNTAIN
Recommended. Mountains haven't won me over. The picture has. It takes you through the history of exploration of mountains presenting stunning images and showcasing incredible sports.
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