Yesterday Friday was our first film at the PSIFF, and we chose one made in Turkey, about a male singer whose career was on the downward slide, and his young female backup singer. It was a very slow paced film, they went out of town on a longer gig, didn't get paid for it or their hotel stay, he hawked his guitar and car, and she fell in love with a local in the town they were performing in.
The film ends seeming to point to the fact that she would marry, and he would continue being lonely and a bit of an uncommunicative misfit. Yozgat Blues was its name.
After our film we raced home, collected our flutes, and picked up our pals Katie and Grant from across the street at Caliente, and went to our world flute circle monthly get together, held at our flute teacher Annie's house. She had invited a super flute maker, Nash, who is Mexican and now lives in the US, and makes lovely and somewhat unusual flutes. Nash had had an accident and bashed up his face, making him look very startling, but he played many of his flutes, very gamely I thought. Lary bought a lovely new wood flute from him, and it seems that a bamboo flute with "the whole octave" has come to live at our house also. Seems that I acquired a new rattle of buffalo hide, with buffalo fur on the handle. Sounds wonderful.
Today Saturday we went into town this afternoon for our second film, it was called The Grand Seduction, a small Newfoundland harbor village wants to attract a doctor for their tiny town, and then hopes to attract an oil company to build some kind of production plant there too, after they procure a permanent doctor. The wee town lives solely on welfare, and is very down in spirits at the moment the film opens.
It is a fun spirited romp, with lots of amusing plot developments, along the lines of Waking Ned Devine, or the other movie that was something like "the man who walked up a hill and came down a mountain". Gordon Pincent was wonderful, as was Mary Walsh, Cathy ..... and pretty nearly the whole cast of This Hour has 60 Minutes. We enjoyed it thoroughly, though doubt it is Oscar material.
We'll spend most of this coming week seeing one or more films a day, we decided to see 10 in all. Part of the fun of the PS Film Festival is trading film critiques and plot lines with others waiting in the lineups, it seems to be a very well organized and well mannered festival overall, listening to folks talk about what they have seen or will see is wonderful. Also fun is to hear where they are from, and how many films they will see in the allotted 10 or 11 day time frame. Additionally we get an emailed list every day of the films that are highly recommended, but by then we have already chosen our group of films that interest us.
It's very exciting to be here near a city that actually holds a film festival. Our weather continues warm, dry and with very little wind. Horray that.
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