Festivals Past...

I was thinking back to some of the movies I had seen and enjoyed at past festivals. Can't remember if it was in 2001 or 2002, but one I enjoyed was Marion Bridge, starring Molly Parker and Rebecca Jenkins. Set on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, it told a tale of three sisters coming to terms with a dark secret in their past that tore their family apart. Serious and dramatic, with just a hint of humour to keep the film from becoming completely bleak. I stuck around after the movie for the Q&A with the director, Wiebke von Carolsfeld, who had previous been more of a film editor. Think she had just finished putting together the final print days before the festival started. The Q&A sessions are usually pretty interesting, but they can get uncomfortable if no one in the audience can think of a good question; the session for the French movie My Wife is an Actress (which has been playing on TMN the last couple of months) was like that.

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