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19 September 2012 #445

It's F1 week in Singapore! But if you're not quite turned on by fast cars, daredevil drivers, or partying at the circuit, we have some suggestions for you at the Fridae Movie Club.

Festival-wise, the THIS Buddhist Film Festival is back this weekend with a thought-provoking lineup of international films. Post-festival, GV has brought back The Well-Digger's Daughter (READ review) from last year's French film festival for a commercial run.

Our pick of the week though is To Rome with Love, the latest comic escapade by Woody Allen. Set in Rome, it tells four stories about love and romance and the absurdities of existence in inimitable Woody Allen style.

Ruby Sparks might well be a Woody Allen film, with its neurotic, self-effacing, nebbish, and socially awkward author protagonist whose relation with his latest muse is surely doomed to failure despite her being the perfect quirky but charming girlfriend ever. The catch of course is... She's purely a product of his imagination!

Produced by master of horror Sam Raimi, The Possession turns the clock back to the 1980s where horror films were slow, subtle, menacing, and philosophical — like The Exorcist. This time round though, The Possession takes its theology and mythology from Jewish folklore, and the object of evil is a box containing a malevolent dybbuk!

A pair of cannabis-dealing entrepreneurs and their common girlfriend fend off the Mexican drug cartel in Oliver Stone's Savages. Intent on being a modern-day crime epic in the Noir tradition, the film subjects its characters to a world where the best laid plans often go awry, and the best course of action is to improvise your way out.

Till next week,

Vernon Chan

PICK OF THE WEEK
 

To Rome with Love

Here are four short stories, all of which conspire to feature: Rome's architecture, its piazzas, al fresco dining, Italian opera, and the paparazzi. There's an architecture student whose girlfriend has her flighty BFF visit and ruin their love nest, a small-town couple who visit the city for a job interview and get propositioned separately by a society girl and a movie star, a visiting record producer who persuades his mortician in-law to share with the world his talent for Met-calibre opera singing, and an average Joe who finds himself suddenly famous for being famous. The city of Rome's commissioning of a Woody Allen film set in Rome is a testimony to his long career.

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