The wonderful world of movies

Today I had a typical full film festival experience!

First I just happened to see a film I hadn’t planned to see, and it was a disaster!
Later I saw another film that was absolutely wonderful. The film is called The Fountain, by the director Darren Aronofsky. It is absolutely beautiful, fascinating and extremely gripping!

One big advantage with watching films at a film festival is the audience. Festival audiences know and appreciate the difference between watching film at the cinema and at home. They don’t talk and they do turn their cell phones off. They eat sweets and popcorn, but they do it silently! Just imagine a big theatre full of people but at a moment in the movie, where it is completely silent, it is indeed totally silent! Wonderful!

The reason I watch that much film right now is that I volunteered to help out in the festival Guest centre. It is quite interesting! I get to meet directors, producers and other filmmakers and film-maker-wannabes. Those are almost the most interesting; they are young film students or actors waiting to be discovered. For someone like me, who like film, but never ever considered the idea to work with it and who really don’t know much about the film business, it is very interesting. It is like a complete different world!

The other film I saw today is called Avida and if anyone has seen it and understood it, you are more than welcome to explain it to me….