Movie weekend
At the MAMI festival, last weekend, we saw the following films, some for the first time, some for the most amazing repeat viewing:
- Isaki Lacuesta’s Legend of Time, which is a quintessentially festival film…
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Guddi (Jai Dharmendra, as Utpal Dutt says at the end; and the film is the nicest tribute to Hindi movies, but why did the Bhabhi disappear into the kitchen and never return from there?)
- Sarah Polley’s Away from Her, which is a nice film adaptation of Alice Munro’s story The Bear Came Over the Mountain
- Kieslowski’s Decalogue, Five and Six.
- half of an Italian film with lots of killing, hugging and screaming (we walked in late because we were coming from the IMAX to Fun Republic - what an optimistic name - and decided to have lunch at Little Italy, where we lingered over the great food. We had only been planning to reach in time for the Almodovar, but the Italian film did seem very entertaining, and we were sorry to have missed the first half)
- and Volver!!
Luffed it.
*****
Off to Fort Kochi tomorrow. Puttu-kadala, Chinese fishing nets, backwater cruise, here we come.
