November 17, 2008
SLIFF Day 5
A new week brings a new batch of filmic happy happy joy joy to the STL film community.
There is a really diverse program of films tonight so take a chance and pick something out!
Blessed Is the March
7pm
Plaza Frontenac
This powerful documentary focuses on the heroics of Hannah Senesh, a War II-era poet and diarist who became a resistance fighter and joined a rescue mission to save Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust. Although Senesh paid the ultimate price for actions her efforts were not in vain. Director Roberta Grossman has keanly used Sanesh's own writings to document her amazing story.
Wendy & Lucy
7pm
Plaza Frontenac
Michelle Williams stars as Wendy, a way down low gal heading to Alaska for a job. Her plans go awry when she is stranded in the Pacific Northwest en route. A tragic run of bad lucks ensues for Wendy and her dog Lucy as they struggle to rise above their financial hardships. Michelle Williams' performance won rave reviews at Cannes, and Toronto.
Special
9:15pm
Plaza Frontenac
After a dose of really heavy stuff today comes a frothy film with Michael Rapaport as a comic book geek who believes he has gained superpowers after participating in a anti-depressent trest drug program. Rapaport is always interesting to watch on screen and the script gives him a lot of room to move around.
Fashion Victims
9:00pm
Plaza Frontenac
This German film screened on Saturday and got a pretty good word of mouth about it afterwards. The film goes old school to the glorious days of slapstick comedy. It's an over the top affair about a ladies fashion salesman who is on the lamb from the bank and the taxman. A cataclysmic series of misunderstanidngs causes him to lose his wife see his son fall in love for his nemesis.
A Good Day To Be Black & Sexy
9:30pm
Tivoli
By far the best titled film of the Festival. Six seperate stories depict aspects of contemporary African American relationships in LA. The stories are comedic, poignant and touching.
-Rob Levy