Wait- sorry. That's pfff. Anyway, it's actually the Pusan (Busan) International Film Festival and last weekend was the 13th annual. Advance tickets sold out in their typically rapid manner, so we decided to travel Sonja-style: wing it! We just hopped the cheap train to Busan, walked up to the main theater box-office, and bought tickets for 2 shows straight off the bat. At 4:30, we saw a pretty (if a bit boring) film about an English family called Shadows in the Sun. Then we headed up to Haeundae Beach for the 7:30 outdoor showing of Sky Crawlers, a Japanese animation which I thoroughly enjoyed. As it turned out, we got a bonus second screening of a movie named Gomorrah, about life in Italy's famous Neopolitan Camorra mafia. This was my bf's favorite, but I got a little sleepy. After all, it was the third movie, and it was about midnight. I liked it anyway, but my real favorite came the next morning.
After spending the night at a random downtown jjimjilbang (which caused me to resolve never to stay at a Busan jjimjilbang other than Song Jeong Beach) we had lunch and hit the box office once more. At 2PM, we took in the last of our PIFF films - Salt of This Sea. A woman raised in Brooklyn returns to her home country of Palestinian Israel. She finds someone as desperate to escape Palestine as she was to return "home" and she's continually forced to face her anger and frustration about her family's past. I LOVED it, my favorite of the four. =UPDATE: The director of Salt of This Sea was just featured on CNN= Check them out and download them if you're interested.
**Some sources gathered from the Toronto International Film Festival website**
2 comments:
Glad to hear that you got to Japan, but you haven't written about it yet. Would love to hear more. Lou & I are off in the RV soon for a month or so. We are stopping 1st At Dan & Terry's for Mandy's 2nd Birthday and Mariah's baptism. Then we'll spend a couple of weeks in Wash. D.C. followed by Williamsburg/Jamestown/Yorktown area and lastly Charleston, S.C. My perception is that you're still enjoying Korea alot. That's great. News here is all bad - something good has to happen soon! Love, Jan
I was going to just be lazy and let the pictures speak for themselves about Japan. There's almost too much to say...
What's the bad news?? I'm in worry-filled suspense. Send me a quick email if you get a chance.
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