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Youth Portraits from Michiel ten Horn & Rafael Ouellet: Day 3 Live From the 48th Karlovy Vary Int. Film Festival
30 June 2013 5:05 PM, PDT
A cartooned Robin Wright is how I started Day 3 with the early morning screening of The Congress, Ari Folman ambitious Directors’ Fortnight opening film that features Jon Hamm, Paul Giamatti, Harvey Keitel and Danny Huston in either live performance or animated rotoscope/kaleidoscope fantasy incarnations. Touching upon themes of ageism and futurism, this is a meaty sci-fi dessert is tonally awkward, but ambitious in scope.
My first taste of Variety’s 2013′s Ten Euro Directors to Watch technically commenced at last year’s Tiff with Gabriela Pichler’s Eat Sleep Die, but today I got to view one more film that made waves in Toronto last September and continues to play well for auds in Michiel ten Horn’s The Deflowering of Eva van End. Picked up stateside by the Film Movement folks, this aesthetically, stylistically, and tonally pleasing comedy about an exchange student who unknowingly stirs a family of five to near disaster, »
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