MIFF - Literary adaptations
What:
MIFF - Literary adaptations
When:
Check the program
How much:
Tickets $14/$17 here or get a pass
Image:
Still from Awaydays (2008)
There's a bit in The Notebook where Ryan Gosling tells Rachel McAdams that he wrote to her every day and then when he goes to kiss her he opens his mouth so wide it looks like he's going to eat her face off. I know this because it was in the trailer. I haven't actually seen the movie. Honest. It looks brilliant though!
Films about books or based on books are awesome because it only takes 90 minutes to watch what'll take you three weeks to read. Catherine Breillat scans classic kids' story Bluebeard, about a horny ogre deflowering a princess, casting herself in the role. Those ogres, eh? Rugby league players of the 13th century.
For a more subtle romance, try 100-year-old Manoel de Oliveira's Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl. Based on a story by Portuguese realist Eça de Queirós, it sounds like it should be 14 hours long but he's edited it down. Iceland does Chekhov in White Night Wedding and Brit Kevin Sampson adapts his own fashion-cum-soccer-violence novel Awaydays to guarantee a happy ending, vicar. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you may even eat someone's face.
Format: Project
Motivation: Improve your dinner conversation
Keywords: MIFF
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