Paris Film Festival: First Three days

This is my second year at this particular festival and I have to say it has expanded quite a bit since I last experienced it. Still at the huge MK2 Bibliotheques cinema, the festival has become more popular which has lead to more movies being available. Every year the festival highlights one country and it's cinematic exports, this year Japan will be in the spotlight. So on the first day I enjoyed some of Japan's best films, it is a very ecelectic selection and each film is preceeded by an introduction given by a specialist.

5 things I learned about Japan thanks to the Paris Film Festival:
1 If you kill a japanese person either accidentally or on purpose expect a swift and horrible revenge to come down on you.In "Pure Asia", a young girl is murdered by thugs on the street so her sister decides to go on a terrorist rampage on all those who let it happen. She tosses mustard gas into assembly halls and train stations.
In "Machine Girl", a young boy is murdered so his sister starts her vendetta by attaching a chain gun to her wrist and murders everyone involved. It seems that there is no police or judiciary system, people just sort it out themselves, which sounds badass until you cross Machine girl's path. So don't mess with japanese people, for the love of christ.
I will add more details of my education as the festival continues.

The competition itself is comprised of 8 films picked out 1500 films. After watching two, I couldn't help but be disappointed though. One was a Romanian prison movies which tackled some interesting subject on morality but it was lacking narrative direction, the whole movie happens in the last twenty minutes. It was still really good but it made me wonder about the quality of the other 1499 films So I hope the competition develops into something better, something really eye catching over the next few days.



5 reasons why the Paris Film Festival is more fun than Cannes:
1 You don't have to wade through a sea of cameramen, journalists and elbows to see a movie
2 Furthermore, anyone can enjoy the Premieres for a modest price. You don't have to be privileged to enter the actual cinema.
3 It's in Paris
4 There's a movie for everyone. The festival hosts a huge array of different films.
5 The Paris Festival will close with a huge Cinekaroake session. I still don't really know what that is but it sounds fun.

More to come...