THE HUSTLE
Watchable. Alex Sharp positively stands out in the otherwise perfectly satisfactory cast. The Mallorcan locations add the glitz. It's clear-cut and eventful. But the only amusing gag was with regaining eyesight: "Can you read this?" "No, that's in French." The rest is lower-end vulgar humour. Songs include Meghan Trainor. A good translation by Elżbieta Gałązka-Salamon. A lesson to remember is: "why are women better cons? Because men never believe they can be as smart as them." I enjoyed the comedy but wished it weren't so moronic, including the dorky post-credit.
16TH DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY FILM FESTIVAL
SAKAWA
Watchable. It's an instruction of scam avoidance. Don't post your pictures on Facebook or Ghanaians "in the fraud business" may use them as bait. Never discard your hard drives. And don't tolerate spelling mistakes. Even voice-changing phones are used by male cons to sound female. On the other hand, just like white men in their 50s believe in love and horny damsels in distress, the con artists in Ghana are taken for a ride by voodoo priests. Eye-opening but not earth-shattering.
The meeting with Sergei Loznitsa after "The Trial" focused on the film and was surprisingly dull. I found out that only "Maidan" and "Donbass" were banned in Russia. "The Trial" is seen as part of their history. Also, in the 1920s and now medicines are used to affect people's will. Apparently also a hypnotiser worked on the subjects. But the police left no traces of any coercion.
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