Far East Film Festival 2009

In preparation to the visit of JoRafCinema to the Far East Film Festival from April 25th to May 3rd (link), I wanted to share with you my experience of this film festival. 

Fourth episode happened in 2009.

The best place to have a Martini or a Spritz Aperol between two movies

Catalogue 2009

For this one, I must admit that I messed up with all my notes on the movies I have seen. So that I can only rely on my bare recall to remember which movies I have seen and how these were, except the couple of movies that let huge impressions, such as:

Love exposure, from Japan, an amazing movie that is fully reviewed there,

The forbidden door, from Indonesia, a thriller starting from one horrific idea to the next and making all this credible. The atmosphere is disturbing and really induces realistic fear to oppose this to the Bouh effects,

The story of the closestool, from China, drama showing a turn in the mentalities in the Maoist China leading to the capitalist/communist China that we know. The story is not so weird as the title sounds and the directing if very mature especially the composition of the picture,

Ip man, from Hong-Kong, the original action movie that inspired many other Ip man movies, such as Grand Master,

Best of times, from Thailand, a very authentic and subtle directing of love stories,

Departures, from Japan, a drama about the search for what is important in life, good directing even if a bt long, as often for Japanese movies.

Other movies that I remember but were not so marking to me:

My dear enemy, from South Korea, a fine road movie of a woman with his ex-husband,

Connected, from Hong-Kong, an action movie with the original plot of a polar that do not allow the main character to hang up the phone,

Coming soon, from Thailand, after which the movie-goers will first have to survive to the horror movies they watched...

Crush and blush, from South Korea, a fine black comedy with teachers and students,

The equation of love and death, from China, a drama with a good story and unfortunately not much rythm,

The good, the bad and the weird, from South Korea, a Western that I find boring whereas I love Spaghetti Westerns.

Other movies that I barely remember from the style point of view:

Rough cut, from South Korea, an action movie with street violence,

Takut: faces of fear, from Indonesia, a collection of 6 horror stories,

4BIA, from Thailand, another collection of horror stories,

Fiction, drama from Indonesia,

Scandal makers, a comedy from South Korea,

Fireball, an action movie from Thailand,

Yatterman, a superheroe movie from Japan.

Whether I forgot the movies because we had a good time in the festival. All the city offers plenty of nice places. 

Café on top of the Udine's hill, in front of the Castle

The enjoyable sunny terrasse of Alla Ghiacciaia

For the coming 2014, we will make as for all the Film Festivals where JoRafCinema has been present since its creation in August 2012. All the movies that we have seen will be reviewed and presented in the JoRafCinema blog. It will be a pleasure to share our inclination to Asian movies.

FEFF information bus in the city of Udine