What a fun day!
It was awesome to see our estranged iSm again, as well as LSPE and Tom of course, plus Sohrshah and Lance, and mousepod too.
There were some great ones. As usual, the sappy ones appealed to me. One where a woman predicts how her friends will react to her death touched me since I tend to daydream about these things. An old man's reminiscence of his life and family hit me pretty strongly and I almost cried, even though I'd probably used up all my tears for the holocaust one earlier.
I swear, holocaust films are unfair. I avoid them when I can. This one had some weird, almost insensitive touches...though when Germans make a film about it, the view is a bit strange.
There were some fun short ones, and the one called Pig was an amusing, well-done example of the struggles regarding religious tolerance, though the "debate" between the daughter and son was a bit overdone, I thought. An African child dealing with the quirky kids in an Irish elementary school was fun and able to evoke his homeland in a simple, warm, yet realistic way.
Such interesting films...and such crosscultural reaches...a Japanese film with a French title, a Muslim family in a Danish hospital, a German film done in Switzerland, an African boy in an Irish school...if last year's theme was "Cancer", this year's is "It's a Small World After All."
Fantastic day, thanks H & T!
It took a lot of effort to remember the films after the HORRIBLE addition of the one LSPE referred to called Varmints, which was so soul-suckingly terrible that I almost simply stared at my lap until it was over (please end! please end!) and the idea that it wasn't nominated and therefore we didn't have to see it at all just drives me crazy. I only mention it so I can post this: DO NOT SEE THAT FILM. You may commit suicide.