Horror in three dimensions and why people don’t like author cinema.

So Saturday was one of my most anticipated days: I got up, early as usual, to go to the cinema tent and to see Sofia Coppola’s new movie Somewhere. Somewhere is, as you’d expect, incredibly beautiful, extremely slow and just magical. However, I am still not sure if it’s really that great. It is doing very well in terms of observing and watching, but sometimes it feels like she can’t pull the story together. Which, in a way, is nice, because when she tries to do so, she doesn’t really seem to succeed (Marie Antoinette was horrible). Then we sprinted to our discussion on Roots and Memories – you can find the video footage here, as well as my blog post.

In the afternoon, we decided to hang around the Lido and just do nothing but sip drinks and watch the world pass by. Venice seems to be the a perfect place to do that. When we got bored, we went to see the Short Film selection which was even more boring. Not a good idea.

Black Ocean was another bad idea. It suffered from the classical French syndrome: Guys, you talking to each other for 90 minutes does not make a great film, sorry.

The best part of that day was the flat party which led to really good discussions – and wine and food of course. To finish off the day, we decided to see My Child’s Eye. A Japanese 3D horror movie which was really good fun and really scary. However, technically speaking the movie was crap. But hell. I believe that horror movies really benefit from 3D technology, whereas I think it acts more as a gimmick for most films.

Screening log so far: Black Swan, Machete, Dark Love, The Accordion*, Le bruit des glaçons, Miral, Incendies, Somewhere, The Futurist*, Mechanisms of Spring*, Il Capo*, Casus Belli*, Les Barbares*, Atom*, Black Ocean, My Child’s Eye. (* = short films)