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[lesbiassparrow]

So, I've been looking through a film festival line-up. So far my browsing has shown me:

1. 27* coming of age stories, most of which appear to end in tragedy

2. 12 films where middle-aged people have a gathering of some sort and discuss something about adultery/crime/whathaveyou that turns out very badly

3. 19 films that 'eschew sentimentality' presumably so they can also 'present unflinching gazes' at something or other

4. Approx. 75 personal or film journeys. I do not know what separates the two as presumably as this is a film festival they are all filmed.

5. 4 "ineffably transcendent experimental" works.


* All numbers may be exaggerated for rhetorical effect.

Comments

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

Don't they realise that some of us just had to take a swig of Buckley's cough syrup (that nearly took our heads off because it's something like 80% menthol) to pep us up for 20 minutes so we could stagger to the nearest grocery store and buy food? Damnit, if I'm going to watch anything when I'm sick, it's going to be something funny.

Also, this is why film festival movies very rarely make money. Who wants ot pay to see them?

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

It's the sameness of the descriptions that gets to me: just how many tragic coming of age stories set in a brutal climate of repression/ice/heat/urban crime/despair does one film festival need? And why must everything involving someone under 20 be a coming of age story? Don't kids ever do anything else? The same goes for personal stories of discovery. I bet it was a lovely experience but I'm not really sure why I should care about your search for your father/religion/love/hope/pen.

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

THIS. THIS. THIS.