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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