Au Revoir Taipei
This delightfully silly homage to French New Wave cinema is set on the bustling streets of Taipei. In order to visit his girlfriend in Paris, a young man borrows money from an uncle and agrees to pick up a 'package' for him. With his awkward school friend and a cute girl he meets in a book shop, the threesome become entangled in a ring of crime, drugs, kidnapping and dumplings! This is a cheesy and quirky Taiwanese romance, washed down with a Jazz Manouche inspired soundtrack... loved it.
The Black Panther
When the director Iyari Wertta introduced this film, he encouraged the audience to stick it out... it would all become clear in the end! Exhaustion forced me out of the game fairly early when it came to making sense from this noir-ish piece of Mexican surrealism. However, adamant to find meaning, my dear friend concentrated from beginning to end and still came out of the cinema wondering where the last two hours had gone. All I can say is that the film follows a private eye who is instructed by a God-like figure to find 'The Black Panther'. The rest is a cinematic brew of flying saucers, lesbians, large hairy dogs and cryogenics. Tempted?
The Extra Man
A young writer (Paul Dano) moves to New York where he finds a roommate of another era: a charismatic yet miserly old man (Kevin Kline) who is dedicated to etiquette and works as an escort for ancient aristocratic ladies. This is a strange buddy movie, extroverted and exaggerated in every way. As the rest of the audience enjoyed a good belly laugh, sadly, for reasons unknown, I remained somewhat stone-faced and silent throughout the film. Another victim of my film fatigue?
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