My second day of Love and Anarchy film festival. Initally I thought I had two screenings. Then I realized I have three, my calendar just managed to hide one of them. Then I fucked up and missed the last one 😁
Warning: There may be spoilers ahead.
Timecrimes (2017)
Everything about this screamed "go watch me". Time travel, scifi, "weird", being the selling labels. Sure, that's for me! It was weird. I think time travel is probably one of the hardest science fiction themes to get right - probably because "right" is a rather hard to define when it comes to time travel. It's not like we've actually had working time travel solutions, and the whole thing is a bit of a mindfuck.
Timecrimes did the "weird" part really well, but I'm afraid otherwise it felt a bit of a half-attempt. Just so many things that made the plot hard to follow, and the casting wasn't particularly impressive. The plot did try to pull through towards the end though, but left quite a bit of "wait what" holes in the process. Maybe it's just the time travel topic being hard.
Rakkautta ja Hekumaa (short films)
Short film collections from Love and Anarchy are always a nice thing to give a chance to. This collection, with films related to love and sexual desire container the following:
Super (2023)
A crush and sexual tension can happen anywhere, even at a supermarket. This short film follows a pair hooking up at a supermarket, spending the remaining day there being silly to each other and taking a break having sex in an elevator. In the end it is revealed "James" has a girlfriend and they separate after paying for their purchases just before the store closes.
OK it was more interesting than I described it. Sweet story of young love.
Dildotectonics (2023)
This short film was more of a documentary (I think?) of a person with the aim of creating non-phallic dildos, while throughout the film we also hear the story of (I forgot the name of the person) from history who had enjoyed dildos in a coven and then her girlfriend got judged by the Inquisition. I'm afraid the pace was rather slow and 16 minutes felt like a long time, maybe I was just tired.
Affricate (2022)
A woman is spending days at a beach side hotel with her two daughters. The daughters feel full of life, while the woman feels sad and lonely, and over protective regarding especially one of her daughters, who seems to have some special mental qualities needing extra care.
Luckily the day is saved by local hotel staff hunk Mark, who shows her life is all good by giving her a quick fuck on the beach. I think that was the point of the film.
An avocado pit (2022)
A trans prostitute decides to hit on a seemingly straight guy who seems to be having relationship trouble. Mutual interest develops, though in the end, neither believes love is in the air. This was actually a really well filmed cute story with lots of beautiful scenes, though the story didn't have a lot in it.
27 (2022)
I missed this one, as I had to leave to run (cycle) to my next movie, a 35 minute biking trip away as somehow I planned things poorly. A nice bike ride later...
Kubi (2023)
A samurai film by Takeshi Kitano. Something I was really looking forward to. A furious bike ride later, walking towards the theater at the last minute I realized the film is actually screening in a completely different place, like 10 km away. Somehow I had completely misread and with the laws of physics making it rather impossible for me to move my bike 10km in one minute, this one had to be missed :(
It was probably good!
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