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Sundance
2001: Day 8
By Paul Fischer in Park City, Utah
Special to iofilm
27/01/2001
Almost
nearing the end of one of my most exhausting festivals to date.
Only one screening
today, and the least palatable of anything I've seen this festival.
Korea' s The Isle is a slow, meandering and overly graphic
film about a young woman's obsession and love affair with a mysterious
stranger on an island.
Containing
some horrific scenes of extreme violence, not to mention other
moments better left unsaid, The Isle looks gorgeous, but is otherwise
a shallow and vacuous film which is unlikely to be released outside
of South East Asia.
Rest of the
day spent interviewing - and attendance at my one and only party.
Interviews,
interviews
First up,
emotionally charged interviews with the director of Trembling
Before G-d, Sandi DuBowski, and one of its subjects, the first
orthodox gay rabbi. The interviews turned out to be as moving
as the film.
"Three
more years" for Niles
Then it was
off to meet the cast of the unfortunate Wet Hot American Summer.
Emmy winner David Hyde Pierce (Niles in Frazier), admitted he'll
be around on the show for at least another three years.
Party
time
While The
Isle was one of my least favourite films, the party was great.
Korean barbecue was the name of the game, at a Chinese restaurant
on Main St. Great food, free drinks, what more can a hard working
journo want?
The
End
This is it.
Time to leave Sundance behind. But first I talked to fellow Aussies
Mark Lewis, a great guy and the talented director of Natural
History of the Chicken, and the beautiful Radha Mitchell,
currently shooting a new film in Canada with Anthony LaPaglia.
No stranger to Sundance, the weary actress is always fun to catch
up with.
So that's
another Sundance Film Festival. It was a time to eat and breathe
movies, chat to stars and filmmakers and meet new people. Well
organised by a wonderful press office, Sundance 2001 was about
the passion of movies. There were great ones, and forgettable
ones, but that's what makes this festival so consistently unique.
Till next year then...!
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