FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW
I was able to watch 10 films in the 14th International Film Festival of Kerala. It was a good opportunity for me to watch films from different languages. From this 10 films I had seen, 7 of them remains in my mind as good films.

Films that I liked the most:

1. Treeless Mountain:


















1. "Treeless Mountain"- A film directed by So Yong Kim. This story tells us a relationship between two sisters who were left alone by all. The Director had given special care to make the film a perfect life. In the middle section of the film Bin and Jin are almost always seen wearing the same clothing – a princess play dress for Bin, remnants of her old school uniform for Jin. The little girls also learns how to grill and eat grasshoppers (on a stick) for making money and also to fed themselves. This shows how the big aunt cares for them. The film is very slow moving in its story telling.

2. True Noon :











2."True Noon" - A film directed by Nosir Saidov. The film tells us about the problems created by a fence which seperates two friendly villages. It creates anxiety in the minds of characters as well as in the viwers.

The army personnel put a barbed wire fence right across the village. Schools, hospitals, and many other institutions are on one side and many people are stranded on the other. It leads to some funny scenes, where a teacher stands and teaches on the one side of the fence and students sit and learn the other side. Thus the life of people, who have thus far enjoyed peace falls into a severe chaos.

3. "The Moment of Truth" -A film directed by Fancesco Rosi. This film explains about the changes happened in the life of a farmer, who wanted to earn money for better life. But the change- at last leads to his death. The bullfights helps to save money but not life, I think this is what the moral in the story. I like the film for its good moral and also the story.

A farm boy arrives in Barcelona with dreams of becoming a bullfighter, succeeds to the top of his sport, and then faces tragic end. Its quite natural that human beings run behind luck and if luck helps him for atleast one time he will start chasing for it again and again.
4. Shirin :

4. "Shirin" - A film directed by Abbas Kiorostami. This film was taken on an experiment basis. We had seen the film through the expression of women who were watching a Persian love story of 12th century.
We can say this film as a dramatic essay on specatorship which draws on the endless expressive potential of the human face.Here the director allows us to make reasonable guesses ourselves by observing the women’s reactions or examining their surroundings. We are introduced to the film -in the film indirectly. It is a different way of approching a film by the director for sake of the viewers. I like this way of approching the film very much even though many felt it as boring.

5. About Elly :














5. "About Elly" - Asghar Farhadi's Iranian film. Its one of the most remarkable Iranian films. The director had won to attain a technical perfection.
This film tells how web of lies can destroy innocent lives. Its human nature that we goes on telling lying to hide a single lie we said before, a woman’s disappearance gives rise to all sorts of issues of morality. Its common all around world. The same is the case in this film. The film continues in a comic mode until Elly’s disappearance. After Elly is found missing the story changes from the joyful context in to a very serious context.

Films I :

1."Be Calm and Count to seven" - Directed by Ramtin Lavafipour. This film tells us about the story of a boy who is struggling to brought up his mother and sister. There are many missing links in this film that the film didnot reveal to the audience like - who put the smuggled bag in front of the house of Motu, a smuggler? Its all unrevealed events presented in the film that made me to dislike the film. In my opinion a film should be something that clearly communicates to its audience.There were several lengthy dialogue scenes between boy and man . I feel it as boring. Towards the end of the film I feel unclear about what happened to Motu.
I think that this film resembles the condition in Somalia .

2. "Nothing Personal"- Directed by Urszula Antoniak.Nothing Personal might have been more focused had it concentrated on fewer individuals, the film is intensely personal tale of a independent young woman's involvement with a widower in a remote area. It's about the personal conflict. Nothing Personal is resolved, there's also something about the ending that seems inevitable, obligatory, and more than a little manipulative.

3. The Fish Child:



















3. Film: "The fish child" is directed and written by Lucia Puenzo. This film is an exploration of the nature and importance of familial and romantic love. The love affair of the two women leds to the murder of a man (who is the father of one of the lady) and an escaping from the the cruel control of the moneyed upper class . At the middle of the film there are hidden and unexpected depths to events going on nearer the surface, something as if in myth and this i don't feel it as unclear to understand and so i dislike this film.