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VIFF 2001: Film Reviews There are 217 feature films and documentaries at this year's film festival. We'll be posting reviews as they come in here. You can also check programme times for films at the Official Film Festival site here. Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amélie Poulain) The opening night film follows a girl from an eccentric, repressed childhood grows up to be attracted to the odd detail in everyday life and to the strangest people. A Ma Soeur (Fat Girl) Predictably controversial French art-porn fare has good and bad points Atanarjuat The Fast Runner First Inuit language feature. Art of Woo Romcom silliness with attractive art curator seeking love and money. The Bank A mathematical genius, having written formula for predicting stockmarket movements, is exploited by a ruthless banker. Boyhood Loves (Amour d'Enfance) Young Frenchman returns from the city to the rural home of his youth to visit his dying father in this subtle, effective drama. Come Together Debut feature by Vancouver-based director is a diverting romcom. Cool and Crazy (Heftig og Begeistret) Norwegian documentary telling the tale of a male voice choir and its members in the remote fishing village of Berlevag. Friend (Chingu) Slight variation on the gangster formula from South Korea. God is My Co-pilot US bomber pilots talk about going into action with God on their side. Hi, Tereska Cool, unflinching portrayal of childhood alienation in Poland. Inner Tour, The Documentary exploring Middle East conflict through eyes of a busload of Palestinians revisiting lost homes. In the Bedroom Powerful contemporary weepie-cum-thriller about the impact of a human tragedy on a group of people living in a small coastal town in Maine. Kandahar (Safar é Ghandehar) A woman returns to Afghanistan to save her suicidal sister. La Ciénaga (The Swamp) Disquieting dissection of an Argentinian bourgeois clan cuts deep The Land of Wandering Souls Doc exploring Camabodia's bloody past. Last Wedding (The closing film of the festival) Satirical romantic comedy from local director, Bruce Sweeney. Mulholland Drive David Lynch's haunting, eccentric thriller. Night Shift (Trois Nuit) French a psychological thriller shot in a naturalistic style. Obachan's Garden NFBC documentary that takes a very personal look at the Japanese Canadian experience over the last century. Orphan of Anyang, The Unemployed worker takes on the job of child minder for prostitute's baby The Princess and the Warrior "Run Lola Run" director's latest is about a psychiatric nurse who has a passion for the thief who saved her life under a truck. Promises Illuminating documentary showing the realities of the Arab-Israeli conflict through the eyes of seven children. Slogans (cancelled due to print unavailability) The comic side of Communist Albania. The Sleepy Time Gal A mother diagnosed with cancer revisits her past. State I Am In, The (Die Innere Sicherheit) Old revolutionaries still on the run flee from Portugal to Germany with their teenage daughter. Tears of the Black Tiger (Fa Talai Jone) Parody of American Westerns in Thailand. Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine in Daehakno Gorey, gothic parody from South Korea. Together Seventies commune in Stokholm is disrupted when a battered wife and two children join This Filthy Earth Two sisters scrape a living farming muddy land, without hope or release Vancouver International Film Festival awards 2000 Back to Vancouver Film Festival Coverage
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