Park City, Utah – Nine months have passed since the Sandans Film Festival announced that it explores the capabilities of a new home starting in 2027. For some of those present for a long time, the idea of ​​resettlement like snowball to the back of the neck. Mastering Park City is similar to the success of success: the curve is very slope, but you are moving closely as soon as you know if you are looking to shut up or walk, where you find the best space in the library center theater and grocery store by Sushi by the Village Village holidays in reality. Will Sundance fans really start starting again in Cincinnati?
Perhaps this is the nostalgia for the early homeland in the air, but the first films I saw this year shared the topic of being a strange person in a strange land. Take Evan Two’s Two’s “Bubble & Squeak”, where the newly American married couples (Hamish Patel) and Delores (Sarah Goldberg) fly into a fictional country torn to the honeymoon at a cheap price. This country once forced its citizens to stay on the cabbage. Today, vegetables and punishment on the smuggling of cabbage are generally executed. But Delores has stuffed dozens of paper heads under her pants just because she does not feel obligated to respect other rules of culture.
Himish Patel and Sarah Goldberg in “Bubble & Squeak”.
(Sandans Institute)
She forced her to the festival for the couple in running from a customs officer (Stephen Yun) and his president, Sharabor (Matt Perry), who is locally famous for cutting the outskirts of criminals. They have a zero tolerance policy. The audience, on the other hand, should be more accepted. If you take a shot of vodka every time someone says cabbage, you will be taken to the hospital by the end of the first semester. At one point, Diklan and Deloris tells their entire love story in the form of vegetables. It is my favorite scene of anything in this festival so far.
Twohy arc tone can make this comedy like “Midsommar” is a lack of shock. But while the couple tries to escape across the border, the rift lines are cracking in this emerging marriage, especially when Dave Franco appears as a concealed colleague. The indigenous population is colored and silly, but the goal of the film is the disaster tourism. (I will bear this attack as a person who once made some tourist attractions in Chernobyl and returned home with a memorial shirt.)
Meanwhile, Justin Lin returned to Sandans with “The Last Days”, the drama of the real travel turned into the tragic tragedy. In 2018, 26 -year -old American John Allen Zhao died when he illegally sailed from Port Blair, India, to the forbidden North Sentenil Islands. He wanted to bring the Bible to the remote Al -Jazeera tribe. They were not affected. Chau (Sky Yang) was named by the martyr, hero, and a nut function. You hear all the three opinions before the end of the opening credits.
Sky Yang in the movie “The Last Days”.
(TANASAK “TOP” box / Sundance Institute)
Lynn launched his career in Sundance 2002 with Indie Heist “Better Luck Tomorrow” and then continued to direct five films “Fast & Furious”. This film is divided into a clinical manner: its small narrative engines cannot keep up with visual extravagance. “The last days” barely deal with religion or piety. Instead, he plays like a Globetrotting movie about a child who does not realize that he is in his head. When Zhao befriends two Christians who seek excitement (Toby Wallace and Cara Bravo) in Kurdistan, the tone is “Christ’s passion” less and more “point break”. His adventures are filmed on his back with a magic that sheds the jaw that makes the movie and loses. We realize that the point is that an ideal heritage has been cut off. Instead, we leave a fan of all the wonderful places that he went to.
“Trap Rabbit Trap”, for the first time, is confident of Bryn Chainey, about a couple from London Darcy and Dafni (Dave Patel and Russian McQueen), who sit to the Wales countryside to record the experimental noise album. (It is the latter of the last album in the seventies of the twentieth century, and its cover was drawn like Ziggy Stardust.) Then he appears a strange character (Jade Croot) at their door holding a newly killed rabbit. These million in the city will learn to respect local myths.
I have seen the “rabbit trap” twice now and every time I sank in the vibrations of every scene. The craft is of the first degree. However, if I ask me to explain how all the scenes are compatible together in a story, I will hit a mute, just as in my school every night during his bad dreams. But I can call it the most culture that I have seen in Sandans so far. These strangers did not reach insult and evasion, and they did not wander and transfer. Instead, they learn to sing the local language in a beautiful hymn.
Dave Patel in the movie “The Trap of the Rabbit”.
(Andreas Institute Johanssen / Sandans)
“BUNNYLOVR” from Katarina Zhu also stops on a talented rabbit. (Is there somewhere a magician here in the snow that takes them out of his hat? The recipient is a girl in New York City called Rebecca (Chu), who focuses on satisfying her to the point that she changed her desires. When her shepherd online asks her to hang the rabbit with his ears while filling himself, she does not have the backbone of rejection. (Be careful: you will hear the shouting of the rabbit.)
However, as in mixing and ambiguity like Rebecca, Chu makes the character feel concrete. For the first time, the narrative director managed to make a fog statue. Rachel Sennut, who plays the best friend in Rebecca, ears, to form an intimate bond with her is impossible. However, we intend for Rebecca-even when she decided to meet her loving fan in a rabbit personally and want to reach the screen and seize it Ha By the ears.
This scene happens almost again again in the documentary of “Sugar Babies” when a girl girl enters the forest to pick up the forest with a stranger. The adolescent film follows for several years as she flirts with men online to cover her university lessons. The bright autumn and the series graduated from the fall of the age of 16 – it is not a doll. In her heavy and magical drawing, she calls herself a “sugar -sugar child”, the person who pledges to avoid any IRL dates until she is 25 years old. In the end, it breaks its rule.
Fall of Johnson, Left, Lilian Makardi in the movie “Sugar Babies”.
(Joseph Yakop and Jacob Yakop / Sandans Institute)
The film can feel that listening to Tiktoker Monologize is a young and high online over its big plans to get this money and exit from Louisiana, where the minimum wage has been suspended at $ 7.25 since it was at the primary school. Unfortunately, the autumn struggle to leave the city becomes Sezev. Mobile phones gave her a way to contact the outside world – but how will you get there?
Technological separation is an order at this year’s festival, whether on the screen or on the ground. There are three theaters less than the theaters of the city of Park in 2020, where Sundance continues to present the attendance option to stay home for online films. People who participate in pajamas may get an additional kick of remarkable play on the movie “Obex” by Albert Bernie, an art movie from Albert Bernie. It is a type of film with a random snapshot of chicken.
Albert Bernie in “Obex”.
(Beit Institute / Sandans Institute)
“Obex” revolves around a modern type of modern: closing the screen called Conor (Birney). Following is that the film will happen in 1987 with Conor Banzz away in Ascii Art and Karaoke-Res Gari Numan on Macintosh 128K. One day, a game emanates from a demon that disturbs the soul and shows Satan to absorb a gorgeous Connor, Sandy, in the screen. As Connor entered the game to save his dog and expand his isolated world, the same movie tends to Amble. However, she admired her imagination because he was switched between people and pixels, and shivered when Connor cleared him, “Maybe one day we will live in computers – even dogs.”
Certainly computers. Perhaps even in Cincinnati – if it is only for a week of independent films.