Day 5: Meeting Rima Das and the Worst Movie I've Seen
So today started off pretty slow, Caroline and I woke up around 9:00 am and just had a slow morning getting ready which was a nice break from our usual rushing. We headed to the festival around 11:00 am and then got "breakfast"; the Nutella banana crepes at the cheap sandwich stand are so good and were perfect for this cold rain day. We hung out in the AmPav for a minute and then we headed to our first screening Joan of Arc.
Alright buckle up because this was one of the most weird/boring/mind-numbing things I've ever watched. The costumes looked like they were from a Renaissance fair, and this along with props and some of the locations (there was a flatscreen in the background in a shot of the church) were strife with historical inaccuracies (quills weren't invented until the 1700's!!), that broke my medieval history nerd heart. The five minute or more interlude songs weren't even good and the shots were long and confusing including things like a 20 minute montage of horses trotting or Joan staring into the sky. Often times me and the audience weren't even sure if this was supposed to be a comedy or a drama. Everything about it just felt lazy and thematically skewed. Lots of people walked out. Just overall a bizarre experience. The only saving grace I could see would be it being kind of a self-aware historical fiction kind of mimicking or mocking how most people imagine this story being played out, but overall it was just awful to watch being over two hours over some pretty shit experimentalism.
Then we went to the Rima Das panel which was a nice refresher after Joan of Arc and I'm proud of myself for asking good questions and she is such a cool and inspiring filmmaker and person. After this we went to the screening of Port Authority and Rima was actually right ahead of us in line so we got to talk way more in depth with her which was awesome. I got some really cool pictures of her too. Also I really liked Port Authority the romance was developed beautifully with a lot of very small intimate moments brimming with tension (putting nicotine patches on, measuring each other, etc. love a good slow burn) but I wish it was told from Wye's perspective instead of the straight white cisgendered male onlooker.
After that Rachel, Katie H., and I got some food at a cheap sandwich stand in JLP and talked more in the lobby with other people about the movies we've seen. Overall pretty good day, excited for tomorrow trying to get up at 6:00 am wish me luck.
Alright buckle up because this was one of the most weird/boring/mind-numbing things I've ever watched. The costumes looked like they were from a Renaissance fair, and this along with props and some of the locations (there was a flatscreen in the background in a shot of the church) were strife with historical inaccuracies (quills weren't invented until the 1700's!!), that broke my medieval history nerd heart. The five minute or more interlude songs weren't even good and the shots were long and confusing including things like a 20 minute montage of horses trotting or Joan staring into the sky. Often times me and the audience weren't even sure if this was supposed to be a comedy or a drama. Everything about it just felt lazy and thematically skewed. Lots of people walked out. Just overall a bizarre experience. The only saving grace I could see would be it being kind of a self-aware historical fiction kind of mimicking or mocking how most people imagine this story being played out, but overall it was just awful to watch being over two hours over some pretty shit experimentalism.
Then we went to the Rima Das panel which was a nice refresher after Joan of Arc and I'm proud of myself for asking good questions and she is such a cool and inspiring filmmaker and person. After this we went to the screening of Port Authority and Rima was actually right ahead of us in line so we got to talk way more in depth with her which was awesome. I got some really cool pictures of her too. Also I really liked Port Authority the romance was developed beautifully with a lot of very small intimate moments brimming with tension (putting nicotine patches on, measuring each other, etc. love a good slow burn) but I wish it was told from Wye's perspective instead of the straight white cisgendered male onlooker.
After that Rachel, Katie H., and I got some food at a cheap sandwich stand in JLP and talked more in the lobby with other people about the movies we've seen. Overall pretty good day, excited for tomorrow trying to get up at 6:00 am wish me luck.
Sounds like a good day.
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