Film Fest

As per request from my father, I'll do a mini review of all the films I see during the VIFF:

Young Victoria - UK/Canada

This was the first movie I saw, quite by accident. I was asked to work at Cinema 7, and after ushering people and guarding the reserved seats, there was nothing to do... so I lurked at the back of the movie theater with the other volunteers and watched this movie, and liked it! Very Hollywoodian, even though it's not American. I learned quite a bit about Queen Victoria, and was thoroughly entertained!

Shameless - Czech Republic

Same story as the last, on my second day of volunteering. I didn't really like this one though, it seemed to be just the story of a man going through mid-life crisis, by sleeping with younger women and older women alternatively. I also sadly missed the end, so maybe it got wrapped up beautifully.

It's not amine - 12 Short Films

Cory and I sneaked into this one at the end of one of our shifts, so we saw the last 4 short films: one about wax people coming out of a big candle and going on a quest (very cute), one about how comics are cool (good for the first five minutes, and then boring and redundant), one was a remake of sleeping beauty (hilarious), and the other was a dooms-day-alien-invasion type movie that wasn't all that impressive. I'm hoping to be able to see the first eight movies at some point before the end of the festival; if I make it, I'll update here!

Homegrown - USA

Already blogged about this one yesterday, very good movie!!

The September Issue - USA

Another documentary, about Anna Wintour, the editor in chief of Vogue for the past 20 years (Meryl Streep impersonated her in The Devil Wears Prada). What can I say? By the end, I wanted to go out and buy myself the September issue of Vogue, all 840 (!?!) pages of it!! If you have to chance to see it, I would most definitely recommend it to pretty much everybody, as long as you have an open mind. I didn't even know who this Anna was before seeing this film, and know nothing of fashion, but still was enthralled into that world for the whole movie. And really, that's the whole point of a documentary: providing an insight into a world that you wouldn't normally get to see, and learning something along the way!