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April 20, 2003

SFIFF: Blissfully Yours

Bah. A friend of mine told me to go see this movie--he's emailed with the director and heard interesting things about it. So I went.

It's not a bad movie... but it didn't pay off for me. Surrealistic, but the punch line was way too understated for me.

The movie was introduced by Roger Ma, a programmer at the festival who I quite like. He intro'd the movie by warning us that the credits occur in the middle of the movie (and not to walk out then) and that there was some quite explicitstuff later on, if we wanted to hang around.

Well.... it wasn't just slow, because I actually like slow movies. (Yi-yi and The River come to mind~~the Taiwanese are kings of slow movies).

It was just unsatisfying. At least for me.

I'm hoping the movie is actually great, and I just failed to appreciate it on some level. But while I'm willing to subject myself to a movie or two that tries to do something interesting and fails, I won't recommend it.

Read the blurb here for a more a better intro. And see this more comprehensive review as opposed to my lukewarm reaction.

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