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Last Sunday was pretty busy. Since I am going in a two weeks vacations on the beach, I had to go shopping. I had tickets to see Funky Forest: the First Contact at Fantasia Festival. I just had enough time to go downtown for the movie. I was planning to go ealier joining my friend in the line since there is always a long line in this festival. But arriving near the Jarry Park. It was tons of Italians on the roads; walking or in their cars, they all had their flags. Yep, they won! I thought I would be OK if I don’t go in the Little Italia.. I was few blocks from there. Anyways, I was late because of that. I miss few minutes. >_< Since we were stuck there for 30 minutes, we took some pictures... hehe.

So here about the movie: Funky Forest: the First Contact
Japan
2005 | 150 min | 35mm
Japanese language, English subtitles

Director: Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine, Shinichiro Miki
Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Susumu Terajima, Hideaki Anno, Chizuru Ikewaki, Ryo Kase, Kazue Fukiishi

click here to watch the trailer

Fantasia description: “If you look at them just right, the most mundane elements of daily life can seem utterly bizarre. Conversely, the strangest, most inexplicable things can seem perfectly ordinary. That’s the lunatic logic behind Funky Forest, a sprawling omnibus of the obvious and the oddball, the casual and the completely insane. If you’re reading this in hopes of being handed a sensible synopsis of a straightforward story, you’re out of luck - Funky Forest’s daringly disjointed narrative is a mish-mash of blackouts, non-sequiturs, flashbacks, lucid dreams, magical moments and so much more. Awkward stumbles on the path to romance, and others of life’s little disappointments, are woven together with all sorts of extraterrestrial freaks and incomprehensible biological curiosities, music-video mayhem and mind-bending theatrics, and psychedelic surrealism of the finest grade, delivered with a deadpan shrug.“

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Last Saturday, I watched My Scary Girl (Dalkom Salbeolhan Yeon-in) at Fantasia Festival.

Korea
2006 | 110 min | 35mm
Korean language, English subtitles

Director: Son Jae-Gon
Cast: Choi Kang-Hee, Park Yong-Woo, Jo Eun-Ji

• Official Website (kr)
• Click here to watch the trailer

Fantasia description: “College lecturer Dae-woo may be a pretty smart guy, but in the romance department, he’s helpless. He hides his fear of the opposite gender, and timidity in general, behind a thin façade of cynicism and superiority, listing off the reasons that he can’t be bothered with women. But love comes for everyone, and Dae-woo’s developing a serious crush on Mina, who lives in the same building as he does. Literally shoved into asking her out on a date, Dae-woo is stunned when she accepts, and soon finds himself tumbling head over heels into love for the first time in his life. Their future together looks bright – so bright that Dae-woo is blinded to all the clues that something’s not quite on the level with Mina. Her claims of intellectual and artistic knowledge don’t seem to hold up to scrutiny, and she shows up to meet Dae-woo covered in mud, for some odd reason. Then there’s the ex-boyfriend, whom Dae-woo sees as a rival, who seems to disappear from one day to the next. And what about the giant kimchi fridge in Mina’s living room – with no kimchi in it? Dae-woo’s going to have to wise up to Mina’s mysterious ways, before he ends up in that fridge himself!” Read the rest of this entry »