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Adopted from a 1964 novel of the same name, the film follows a day in the life of George Falconer (Colin Firth), a British college professor reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime parter. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will to live as he seeks the console of close friend Charley (Juliane Moore) who is struggling with her own questions about life. |
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London Film Festival 2009 - Filmaster Awards
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The 53rd London Film Festival is over. As an accredited Filmaster reviewer for the festival I watched 14 movies and so far wrote 4 reviews of the films + short impressions on the other 10. I'll be writing more reviews soon, but in this post I'd like to share a few highlights of the festival from my point of view.
The official winners
It makes sense to mention the winners first. The best film award went to French A Prophet. Ajami was awarded the The Sutherland Trophy. Screenwriter Jack Thorne took the Best British Newcomer Award for The Scouting Book For Boys and eventually the Grierson Award for documentary movies was handed to the producers of Defamation.
I only watched the Sutherland Trophy winner, Ajami, and I was a bit disappointed. The script just seems so much better than the execution, perhaps partly because of very low budget. The way of telling multiple interwining stories reminded my of Amores Perros, although Ajami is much smarter but inferior technically. Worth watching mostly to get a feel of living under constant stress and terror in Israel and Palestine.
I'm going to try to see A Prophet soon. Hopefully it will be distributed in Britain.
Best film
I would have had a big problem naming the best movie of the festival if I had missed the last day. Fortunately I haven't so I've seen Herzog's ...
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reviewed by michuk (Filmaster.com) on the 30th of October 2009
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Excuse me if I don't like it. It may be well executed piece of independent cinema, but I just couldn't relate to any part of it. When in doubt, skip it.