FILM REVIEW

SHERIN

Dierction - Abbas Kiarostami

Producer - Abbas Kiarostami, Hamadeh Razavi

Cast - Golshifteh Farahani, Mahjaz

Afshar, Taraneh Alidoosti,Juliette Binoche,

Niki Karami.

"Shirin" is a magical projection by Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami. It's a different area of film. "Shirin" is a story of 112 ladies , but definetly it's a different version, and is the story about the expressions of ladies who were watching 12th century Persian love story in a theatre.

And the "real audiance" can't see the Persian film , only they can hear. The audiance intensively watching the expressions of ladies and make a good image about the Persian love story.

Abbas Kiarostami exposed every minute actions of ladies, like they are intensively watching the film, rearrange their scarves and their expressions like crying, laughing etc. After the show, the viewers knew about the different way of film making.

FILM REVIEW

IFFK 09

14th international film festival of Kerala started on 11 to 18 december 2009 in Thiruvananthapuram. Festival organised by Kerala state chalachitra academy for the department of cultural affairs and Government of Kerala. Movies screened by Kairali, sree, kalabhavan, new, kripa, ajanta, dhanya, remya theaters and Nishagandhi. The inaugural film is A step into darkness from turkey.165 movies include this festival. The Suvarna Chakoram award goes to “ Fishing flat form “ from Indonesia and About elly from iran. The Rajatha Chakoram award to the best director. Dr.Nosirsiadov his film “True noon”. Audience prize Rajatha Chakoram goes to “True noon” from Tadjikistan.

I was watched on 15th movies.

I was like five films is Treeless Mountain, True noon, Masangeles, Mid summer and Broken Embraces. I was unlike three films is Anti Christ, Nothing personal and Queen of the night.

Treeless Mountain

South Korea

Dir: So Yong Kim

In this film is very interesting, good story and good direction. This story describes the story of six years old Jin who lives with her little sister Bin, and their loss of mother, father and house. They are separated. Jin learns that taking care of her sister is actually away of filling the missing link in her heart. It is a good story for children.

Broken Embraces

Spain

Dir: Pedro Almodovar

This story was difficult for me to understand. Penelope Cruz has given an excellent performance. The hero in this film uses two names: Harry Caine, a playful pseudonym with which he signs his literary works, storys and scripts. The other name. is Mateo Blanco, his real name. Fourteen years before in an accident he not only lost his eyesight, but also Lena, his lover. The editing and sound quality is good.

True Noon

Tadjikistan

Dir: Nosir Saidov

True Noon was selected as the audience choice film and was given the Rajathachakoram and the best director award. It is an innocent story of human life in two small villages. Nilufar, the young charming girl is main character. She is engaged to Azis, from the other village, but suddenly comes a wire border to separate the villagers. This film has wonderful shots and sequences.

Masangeles

Belgium/ Cuba/ Uruguay

Dir: Beatriz Flores Silva

Masangeles is a mind touching story. Masangeles is a seven year girl. Her mother commits suicides. Her father Aurelio Saavedra is a leading polititian. In the end Masangeles gives birth to a child. She loses her father, husband and her house in a riot. Direction of this movie was very good.

Mid Summer (Madhyavenal)

India

Dir: Madhu Kaithapuram

Movie is set in a north kerala village. A message against globalization and new generation bank. The film promotes Gandhian idealism. This film revolves around Sarojini, a Khadi worker, who is a Gandhian idealist with the fire of the spirit of resistance in her husband, Kumaran who is a beedi union worker and their one daughter. They are a low class family. The main roles are handled by Manoj K Jayan and Swetha Menon. The film has a good story.

Films I didn’t like.

Antichrist

Denmark

Dir: Lars Von Trier

The story was very bad. It is the story of a couple. It has horrible scenes. The film was discussed by all delegates.

Nothing Personal

Ireland-Netherlands

Dir: Urszula Antoniak

A young rebellious Dutch woman, hiking through the Ireland accidentally stumbles along Martin, a widower who lives in a lonely house on a beautiful island. Martin offers her, food in exchange for work. This story is unnatural and unstructured. Female character is a feminist.

Queen of the Night

Mexico

Dir: Arturo Ripstein

Queen of the Nights has a bad story. It is a imaginary biography of the life of the iconoc Mexican singer, Lucha Reyes She was an unconventional sexually liberated woman. This movies sound and picture quality was bad and was a disappointment.

The fourteenth international film festival was a rare experience.