I didn't attend any films on Sunday, Sept 11, as I had other obligations. Because there were no screenings on Monday morning, I didn't start until 1.30 pm with a Brazilian drama called The Silver Cliff.
It focuses on one day in the life of a female dentist in Rio. The movie starts off with the dentist and her husband having sex, and then her husband having a shower. Sex and nudity...always a nice way to start a movie. Once the dentist goes to work, she gets a cellphone message from her husband telling her that he is leaving her. At first she tries to fly to the city where her husband was supposed to be going, but there are no planes. She wanders about the city, eventually finding herself at the beach, where she befriends a young girl, and the girl's father, who are homeless, and wandering about the country. The three travel about the city for a while, and by doing this, the heroine comes to an understanding that life does not always go the way one wants, and she returns to her home and her son.
The film was well acted, particularly the three main characters, and some shots of Rio were beautiful. It gave you an idea of the lives that are lived in what we see as a vacation city. However, there were impressionistic moments of just flashing lights, that I found irritating. Apparently, the film is based on a popular Brazilian song.
The second film was a Japanese film, I Wish, directed by Hirokazu Kore-Eda, who directed the well regarded Nobody Knows in 2004. Here again he works with children, and does an amazing job with them, in a kind of kids' journey movie. It starts off in two cities, and focuses on two brothers who have been separated, because their parents have split, so one lives with each parent. The brothers maintain a phone relationship, and each has a group of friends at school.
They plot a trip to a location where two bullet trains pass each other, because the theory is that an energy is created, where wishes will come true, and each one of the friends has something that they are wishing for. The adventure is how they are able to get out of school, get train tickets to the right place, and trick their parents into not worrying about this overnight trip.
The film runs a bit long at 2 hrs 10 minutes, but it is charming and an enjoyable journey movie.
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