At the movies
Took the morning session of the Fargo Film Fest today. It featured 8 films- most were short. Here's the run down and what I thought of each. An Affair with Dolls - Confusing at first but then you realize it is a the meta-narrative of the story we don't see. So it's a meta story acted out with the dolls that in the end you feel sadness for the protagonist- the lady trapped in this odd relationship who is acting out the story with dolls. And this was a foreign film- in Swedish I believe. The Cleaning Lady- A period piece, looking at how the time following the assassination of MLK- specifically in Baltimore, MD. The film was made in Moorhead. It was a good story. 1968 was believable, but 2 things bothered me a little - I thought the protagonist - the cleaning lady - had way too short of hair for 1968- and trying to create the Mad Men feel with insertion of references to martinis. Otherwise it was pretty good. Dragon's Breath- Feng Shui becomes a super power. Film seeme...