|
|
 |
A bunch of us converged on Wailea golf course for
Maui Film Festival--Abe, Allison, Barry, Dave, Heather, Jen, Jill, Sam, Sarah, Timmy, Kavage and me. People wandered as they waited for the sun to go down, taking pictures and texting, which is what people do a lot of now. (Sorry to have to state the obvious.) The opening short Abiogenesis was an impressive feat for a lone animator. Samsara uses the typically excellent camerawork of Ron Fricke to comment on human achievement good and ill. It's beautiful if heavy-handed in places but was unfortunately marred by drifting focus and a blown speaker. The capper was the inscrutably polyglot titled French fillm The Intouchables, which struck me as predictable and trite. I was surprised to learn later it was a smash hit in France. That's Hollywood. |