FEFF - Plenty of rain

Posted on April 23rd, 2008 in FEFF, Music, Movies & TV, Trips & Travel by michele

Oh yes, Monday and Tuesday we had rain. Plenty of it.

After a very late Deathfix: Die and let Live on Sunday night (the 00:15am one) we got a little sleep and found ourselves in bad weather. It has been raining hard for two days, and we were forced to have some meals at the theatre bar (convenient also for making it quick).

A couple of very good movies on Monday, Adrift in Tokyo and the action thriller The Detective. Tuesday not that good, although some nice story unfolded in Our Town, a film from South Korea featuring the distinctive hammer-action so impressive in Old Boy.

Today we started with an horror-wannabe from The Philippines, but I found it just horrible and boring so I dropped out after 30 minutes.

Lunch time now! :-)

FEFF - Sunday, full day into it

Posted on April 20th, 2008 in Ferrara, Food & Drink, Music, Movies & TV, Trips & Travel by michele

Ok, so were did I left you? Oh right, just mid-afternoon on Saturday. Later on, evening movies were good, both Always - Sunset on third street 2 (by Yamazaki Takashi) and Trivial Matters (by Pang Ho Cheung).

This morning we started with a 1958 movie form South Korea, A Flower in Hell, and left before it was over. I’m afraid its 50 years take their toll…

As the movie schedule is very tight this year, we had to choose if we wanted either to eat or to attend every event. I know Art is noble, but we settled for food all the same… just try to understand! We therefore skipped the 2.30pm movie and had a nice lunch, again at the Asian Wok

And this time I have some food picture…

In the afternoon a nice and psychotic movie, In the pool, and after “dinner” the war epic The Assembly.

I wrote “dinner” because in fact we had three glasses of wine each, and a few bits of food… maybe that explains why we felt thirsty and a bit dizzy after the 8.00pm movie, and instead of going for the 10.15pm event we found ourselves in a pleasant conversation in the theater bar. Try to image two guys from Ferrara, a girl from Udine, a girl from Beijing, a guy from Villach and a girl from Klagenfurt, drinking wine/coke and chatting… :-)

I’m now posting this, and we’re likely to go for the 00.15am movie, I’ll let you know :-D

FEFF - Saturday, first movies

Posted on April 19th, 2008 in FEFF, Music, Movies & TV, Trips & Travel by michele

We arrived in the late morning, got our hotel room, got our Black Dragon pass at the Festival welcome point…

And then what better way of entering the Festival mood than having lunch at the Asian Wok, a hugely popular Asian restaurant nearby? I’m afraid I forgot to take a picture of the colorful dish I had… :-)

I found the first movie of the afternoon (Handle me with care) very good, while the second one (The happy life) bored me and I got out before falling asleep… ;-)

Let’s see what comes next!