Today, I had one of my rare 9.00 am starts at the festival. I got down to the Tiff Bell Lightbox, muffin in hand, to join 300 other eager festival goers.
Why were we there? To see a film about based on a recently discovered unfinished novel by Albert Camus called The First Man. I was afraid it might be hard to stay awake, but it was a good movie. It is It is about a French writer who returns to his native Algeria, during the beginning of the rebellion there, to visit his mother and speak at the university. In flashbacks, we see excerpts of his growing up, which showed how life used to be for the French settlers there. The film is well done and very powerful in parts.
The second film of the day was Las Acacias from Argentina. Another basic road journey movie, this time about a truck driver who drives a load of acacia lumber from Paraguay to Buenos Aires. With him is a woman passenger with her 5 month old daughter. It is a slow moving film with not too much dialogue, as we see the development of the relationship between the driver and his two passengers. A slow, but beautiful film. It won the Camera d'Or prize at Cannes this year, which is given for best first feature.
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