Film Festival 2006

CANDY

Sweeeeet Candy

Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish do a great job of living and loving in addiction. Can’t help think that it is somewhat sanitized version of what really goes on, but the desperation and the highs and lows seem real enough.

Ten Canoes

Really well told story. The humour and the sense of the culture shines though. A bit of a gods must be crazy. The use of black and white and colour really worked in the Australian outback with its Olive greats and dry browns.

The Way I Spent the End of the World

Czeck Repiblic with the fall of Choucheque. A story of glowing up in the communist state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution

Venus

A 70 year old falls in love with a 20 year old. Nicely and sensitively told. Great humour and a slight sense of desperation and sadness. It kept reminding me that I was getting old and perhaps I would end up like this in a good and a bad way.