It was an early start...5:30am wake up call...or I should say text from Jake in Guam telling me he had landed safely...my alarm and his text came at the very same time...
Why so early? All of the films in competition have a marathon day playing in 3 theatres from 9 am to 12am.
But the reason why 5 of us go up so early: 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days was playing. And that had been consistantly ranked in the top 3 for majority of the festival...and I didn't see it when it first came out.
Brief snippet of the film: Based in 1987 during the still communist era in Eastern Europe, 2 Romanian college students seek out a way for Gabita to have an abortion -- which was illegal at the time. They find someone named Mr. Bebe who will perform it but only for a "favor." Otilia (Gabita's roommate) has to keep the secret which hurts her relationship with her boyfriend and her friendship with Gabita...
Only warnings about the film...very derogatory of women...very eastern european culture. Kinda graphic abortion aftermass but I had planned for worse. You do see the fetus in the end but that wasn't what hit me hard....it was hearing Otilia throw the dead fetus down a laundry shoot...and then hearing the hard thud when it landed at the bottom. Awful.
But I won't spoil anymore...the film was picked up for distribution in the states but I doubt it will get far due to the cencory that will have to happen and the fact that it will have to be in English subtitles.
But after that film (which was playing at 9am meaning we had to be in line at 7am...thus the reason for being up at 5:30am to catch the 6:30 train) we had about 5 hours to kill before the next film at 4:30...but there again...lining up 2 hours early...
Finally at 4:30 we were let in to see the animated movie Persepolis. About an Iranian girl's story escaping to western europe and the cultural shocks and returns. Very good. Humorous too.
By the time we left this movie people were already walking up the red carpet for the closing ceremony. I was so exhausted that I had no energy to fight with people for tickets again. So I came back, wrote my review, talked to Jake, and got the scoop of who won from those who came back later!
GREAT last day...kinda surreal though...no more movies...no more red carpets...no more stars...no more 12 hour+ days. What a FANTASTIC experience. Was sooo wonderful!! I will never EVER forget this for the rest of life.
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