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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.

Date: 2008-09-28 08:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2008-09-28 09:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unusualmusic.livejournal.com
THIS. THIS. THIS.

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