Waaaaaaa. And so, as the cliche goes, all good things must come to an end, another festival has come and gone.
Brand Upon the Brain
Guy Maddin's shot at avante garde, leaves me out in the freeeeezing cold. Sorry Piers, I fail to see where this man continues to monopolize prime screening times in the 'beautiful and historic Elgin Theatre'. But for the FOLEY team, whose sound effects saved this sinking Titanic, (ie. crushing celery sticks to simulate skull fractures during a lobotomy or devouring oranges for the fleshy sounds of Mother Vampire's bloodthirst) Brand Upon the Brain has a left an indellible strain upon this brain. *
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Still high on its Palme d'Or win at Cannes, Ken Loach's heartbreaking tale of the early beginnings of the IRA in 1920's Ireland. Move over Jonathn Rys-Myers, newcomer Cillian Murphy is my new Irish crush and Oscar buzzes in his stellar performance as Damian Donovan, a doctor who leaves behind a promising career in a London hospital to join his brother Patrick and other boyhood friends in their Republican cause. Overwhelming, enfuriatingly, tragic, I sobbed through to the end. The highlight of this year's festival. *****
http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2006/films_schedules/films_description.asp?id=344
http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2006/films_schedules/films_description.asp?id=344
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