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What a wonderful festival we enjoyed this year!!! First, the Montreal weather was GLORIOUS!!!! The air was fresh, rain at night, sun all day! FABULOUS!!!!
The festival returned to the big screen with 130 feature films plus 200 shorts. The fans came out in full regalia to be plunged into imaginary worlds from around the globe. There was so much good stuff!
For the first time ever I got to see the film who won best film award, Megalomaniac by Karim Ouelhaj.
Part of the Fantasia programming includes horror movies or very dark plots with a lot of gore. This movie made me, as a woman, go through many emotions of frustration, anger, horror, tension and dystopia. The main theme is the unending violence towards women. The starting point of the script is based on a true unsolved cold case from Belgium, the "Butcher" of Mons. This serial killer never left any evidence as to his identity on the dismembered remains of his victims that he left by the road in garbage bags. Ouelhaj imagines that this monster had children who are scarred forever by what they saw as children. Eline Schumacher, who plays the mentally deranged and tragically abused daughter of the killer, was awarded best actress for her portrayal. Do not watch this movie if you are too sensitive. Otherwise, you will get a trip into pure hell.
A stupendous Korean historical movie by Kim Han-min that recounts the 1592 naval "Battle of Myeongnyang" where Admiral Yi Sun-sin led the Korean Joseon Kingdom's navy to triumph against the Japanese navy. The movie is so exquisitely structured that we understand many mysteries of naval warfare and how the orientals structured their forces, how they communicated with each other while in combat, the thinking of the ship's engineers. It is brilliant! If you missed it during Fantasia, you can now see it at a theatre near you and it is worth seeing on a big screen!
The other historical movie I saw was The Pass: The Last Samurai by Takashi Koizumi. The well known Kôji Yakusho brings Kawai Tsugunosuke, a seasoned warrior who uses strategy to avoid war, to life. The film is filled with beautiful art. As I researched the subject I realized that the end of the Samurai happened at the same time as the French Impressionists discovered Japanese art. I am very fond of these big historical movies with beautiful scenery, decor and costumes!
One of my favorite movies, do watch out for this one, is Employee of the month by Véronique Jadin. It is classified as a horror/comedy movie. OMG! I laughed so much! Jasmina Douieb plays Inès, a woman who has several competences but who is used by the men at the cleaning company as a lowly goffer that picks up messes, makes the coffee, stacks the shelves. Enter Laetitia Mampaka as Melody, a girl beginning an apprenticeship, and the magic begins! They play off each other seamlessly as they get rid of their problems one by one!
So it is until next year when Fantasia will present it's 27th edition!
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