IFFK Day-5

Memories of another day


Today also I could not go to the film festival. Too much work pressure in the office. So another day of missed films. I did not get much news about the festival also. I heard that there were some problems with the sound track of the much awaited film Volver (directed by Pedro Almodovar). As in the case of other must-see films in this festival, the theatre was jam-packed about half an hour before the scheduled start of the film. But once it started, it became known that the sound track of the film is in some new format, which needed more sophisticated equipment than what is available in the theatres in Trivandrum city.

I watched Whispering Of The Gods from the second row from the front. In the first row, just in front of me, were two young men. They were discussing deeply about films. They dissected the film crafts of directors from Eisenstein to Makhmalbaf. But some 15 minutes after the film started, they began to fall asleep. At first they tried to resist it by stiffening their neck and firmly focusing their gaze on the screen. But sleep proved more powerful than the celluloid. This is not to say that all of the IFFK audience are like this. But let me remind you that there are people like this also.