Feb 04 2008
Portland International Film Festival
I love the Portland International Film Festival. I like it because I have seen some awesome movies at past festivals that have never been released in the U.S. and I can’t find on DVD. I don’t see as many movies as I would like to when I go since I get worn out and it does last about three weeks. I swear it used to only be two weeks but maybe I’m imagining things. I’m going to try to see these movies this year, but we’ll see what the final tally of movies I actually see will be. 
Here are the movies I plan to see and I’m stealing the descriptions from the film site.
YOU, THE LIVING
SWEDEN
Director: Roy Andersson
Intertwining a series of seemingly unrelated events surrounding a wide cast of characters, You, the Living portrays human flailing for self-fulfillment in a surreal world. As in his critically acclaimed Songs From the Second Floor, Andersson uses a sardonic, starkly formalistic technique to create a series of 50 visually ingenious, cleverly choreographed and frequently uproarious vignettes of modern life—”what you might get if Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot wandered into the moody existential vistas of Andrei Tarkovsky!”—Sight and Sound. “A strong contender for the accolade of funniest film in the Festival.”—London Film Festival. This year’s Swedish submission for the Best Foreign Film Oscar.
