Two main themes
emerge when looking at the films scheduled for this year's festival, and one
certainly surrounds people trying to break free of their monotonous lives.
For a true movie
fan there's nothing quite like a film festival. I can honestly say that there's
no better way to spend, oh, I don't know, ten hours in the dark everyday for
eleven days at a time. Every fall St. Louis
is taken over by an orgy of the artistic, obscure, beautiful, odd, enlightened,
and star-filled films of the St. Louis International Film Festival.
Two main themes
emerge when looking at the films scheduled for this year's festival, and one
certainly surrounds people trying to break free of their monotonous lives.
Films like American Fork (Tivoli,
11/13, 7 p.m.), the St.
Louis filmed Bill
(Tivoli, 11/15, 7 p.m.), and Fresh Air (Plaza Frontenac, 11/15, 9:30
p.m. and 11/16, 2:30 p.m.)
all feature main characters dealing with an overload of their usual
stimulus...And desperately wanting to change things for the better.
Family struggles are also a
large part of the festival this year. Orphans (Tivoli, 11/10, 5 p.m.) takes a drug and alcohol fueled look at
the estrangement of two sisters. Aviva My Love (Plaza Frontenac,
11/18, 1 p.m. and 3:30pm) and Beauty in Trouble (Plaza Frontenac,
11/16, 4:45 p.m. and 11/18, 3:45 p.m.) both examine how our heart's desire
can impact the way we care for our families. Meanwhile, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Plaza Frontenac, 11/11, 7 p.m.) and Dam Street (Tivoli,
11/12, 5 p.m. and 11/15, 5 p.m.) promise to take family dysfunction to
the hilt.
One film that should go over
well with lovers of unusual love stories is Emma's
Bliss (Plaza Frontenac, 11/16, 7:15 p.m.
and 11/17, 5 p.m.). This movie shows
that sometimes the circumstances that force two people together are for our own
good.│Adrienne Jones
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