Love can make you or break you. Love can heal you or destroy you. Love is kaleidoscopic and what you see is what you get. I was surprised that not a whole lot of media folks showed up for the screening of FEAST OF LOVE. But I have to admit that this is my kind of film. It makes you feel hopeful when you walk out of the cinema. It forces you to examine your love life even though you might be in denial.
The film beings when a die-hard romantic coffee shop owner finds out that his wife is in love with someone else – a woman and he is troubled by his wife's sudden change of sexual orientation. Greg Kinnear plays Bradley, the unlucky husband and it seems like he's always looking for love at all the wrong places. It takes him three attempts to finally get it right. The moral of this story is that you'll have to keep trying and someday you'll find the love of your life. We live in a time where people are so fickle. Since you can't make it right the first time, you'll just keep bouncing back and hope that by next time you'll do better.
Bradley takes a leap of faith and then he meets the woman of his dream in ER. How peculiar! I'm convinced that you can't be afraid to get hurt if you want to succeed in this thing called L-O-V-E. If life is like smooth sailing, I don't know if there will be any fun left in it. L-IF-E is tedious without the IF in it. After all, I believe that some Ups and downs build characters!
Next time when you feel like maybe you've found THE ONE, JUMP with your eyes open! If it doesn't work out in the end, write it off and say "NEXT in line, please!"
榮獲2007年坎城評審團大獎的「寂靜之光」(Silent Light),是墨西哥導演Carlos Reygadas繼兩年前在坎城驚世駭俗的「天堂煉獄」之後,再度受到坎城青睞的影片,劇情描述一位已有家室,且信仰虔誠的農夫,不可自拔的愛上另一個女人,在愛情與道德間拉扯的糾葛,令他的生活產生莫大的變化。導演以長鏡頭攝影的美感,塑造出宛如電影大師柏格曼影片中的宗教性氛圍。 坎城競賽片「我在伊朗長大」(Persepolis)是伊朗女漫畫家瑪贊莎塔碧將自己在伊朗長大的故事化成漫畫的暢銷作品。影片貫徹原著黑白畫風、簡單線條,但勾勒出色彩幻變、錯綜複雜成長故事:小女孩經歷伊斯蘭革命時期國王被推翻、兩伊大戰,她離開本國,到外一闖,體驗愛情,追求愛與夢想。儘管過去被烙上了不可磨滅的印記,但小女孩在成長路上追求一個樂觀光明未來。 威尼斯影展得獎作品中,邀來了好萊塢天王巨星布萊德彼特首度贏得影帝寶座的「刺殺傑西」(The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)。本片由布萊德彼特、山姆洛克威爾、保羅史奈德、凱西艾佛列克攜手演出,布萊德彼特飾演惡名昭彰的滔天大盜,扮演美國家喻戶曉的不法份子傑西詹姆斯,他不僅得策劃下一筆搶劫計劃,同時還要設法解決掉死對頭,但造成最大危害的往往是身邊最信任的人。
榮獲評審團大獎暨女主角獎的「巴布狄倫的七段航程」(I’m Not There),則是美國導演陶德海恩斯(Todd Haynes)刻畫搖滾傳奇人物巴布狄倫的大膽力作,全然脫離了傳統傳記片的範疇,大膽啟用了多名性別、年齡、膚色與國籍皆異的演員,詮釋著不同時期的巴布狄倫身影。包括凱特布蘭奇、理察吉爾、希斯萊傑與克里斯汀貝爾等知名巨星,每人以各自的神韻與儀態,打破了巴布狄倫既有的形象,賦予電影更寬闊的想像空間…巴布狄倫可以是任何人,卻也誰都不是。而每一名觀者,都將從電影中看見部份的自己。