The Philadelphia Film Festival is upon us once agian, not that Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, mind you, but a good time none the less. I am not a big movie person, but I have a good friend who knows movies who went to SXSW and checked a few out.
Taking his recomendations I am going to partake in the following...
Medicine for Melancholy
USA 2008, 90 min
The day after a one-night-stand, a young man and woman wander the streets of San Francisco attempting to fill in the blanks of the past evening while reflecting on what it means to be black in a city whose cherished ideals of progressive thought and inclusion coexist uneasily with marginalized minority groups and ruthless gentrification in this unsentimental love letter to the City by the Bay.
Mister Foe
aka: Hallam Foe
Great Britain 2007, 95 min
aka: Hallam Foe
Great Britain 2007, 95 min
A troubled Scottish teen still traumatized by the suicide of his mother runs away to Glasgow and falls into an Oedipal love affair in this intoxicating coming-of-age story with the dark passion and desperate romanticism of Trainspotting.
Then I picked out this one...
Beloved
aka: Saawariya
India 2007, 137 min
aka: Saawariya
India 2007, 137 min
Ablaze with music and luscious imagery, this big-budget Bollywood adaptation of Dostoyevsky's "White Nights" tells the story of an idealistic young wayfarer who becomes entranced by the smoldering beauty of a young woman waiting for her true love's return.
Stay tuned for reviews!
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