To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

Second of the film festival viewings, this was held in a cinema that I had never been too in town. Odd seats, but plenty of loos and jelly tip ice creams made it bearable.

This was an odd little film, and as I had chosen it it was all my fault that it was such a strange cinematic experience. In 2007 the Cannes film festival comissioned 36 directors to produce three minute movies about what it felt to go to the movies. So there were lots of French ones with beautiful blind women crying in the cinema (totally pretentious), Eastern European ones which were just odd and stupid I am too cool for school directors like David Lynch. We decided that the theatre must be filled with people in the business as there were far too many black outfits and expensive glasses and deep sighs after some of the directors names were shown on the screen.

The small films I enjoyed best were those that gave us a glimpse of different cultures, the middle Eastern, Chinese and Asian films were often the most entertaining and were able to tell a complete story in three minutes and left you wanting more. Even the two men in Brazil outside their local run down cinema singing with their tambourines made you want to follow them and find out what else they were up to.

I am going to give you a 2/5 little funny film.