after being out until 3am watching barney and bjork go at each other with flensing knives, i had to get up at 7am to make it down to work for a 9am meeting. whee! and then back to the castro for an unscheduled sfiff film:
House of Himiko/Mezon do Himiko Isshin Inudo (Japan, 2005, 111 minutes)
At a seaside rest home for gay men, a young woman confronts the father who once abandoned her to become proprietor of a transvestite bar. An offbeat comedy that offers a rare look at Japan’s older gay community.
this was actually really lovely. a quiet little film about a girl who didn’t want anything to do with the drag queen father who had abandoned her and her mother as a child, but who comes to reluctantly work in the gay retirement home he’s set up. really quite sweet and nice and just wonderful. maybe my favorite film of the festival so far!
and then tonight, because too much is never enough:
ed harris & a flash of green - ed harris was really entertaining and funny. as for a flash of green, i don’t know. i slept through a lot of it. hmc posits that maybe it’s not the movies themselves, since i’ve slept through a lot of great ones at the castro (lessons of darkness, taxi driver, rififi, le cercle rouge), but maybe the fact that it’s too stuffy and hot in there and that’s what actually puts me to sleep. perhaps i just need one of those personal cooling systems
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