It has been correctly pointed out by Daniel (he who shall sell the rights to his functional MIFF program for nine trillion dollars) that I have named all the films I liked and have in fact been remiss by not naming the one I have shitbagged.

There are two films I have not enjoyed this festival. They are:

The Primo Levi documentary, which I frankly don't know why I thought I'd like anyway, excecpt that I'm interested in Holocaust literature and have never read Primo Levi so wanted to be inspired. I did not feel inspired. I instead felt tired and (as I have said earlier) I slept fitfully throughout. It was a baffling, disjointed, badly thought out documentary, in my humble opinion and full in the knowledge that I am not among the demographic it appeared to be aimed at (those obsessed with Primo Levi).

The second film (the one I took my friend to) was also a documentary, and it was a case of "which venue can we get to fastest". It was a documentary about a Viennese fair, much like Luna Park or the Royal Melbourne show. It would have made for a fantastic seven minute documentary, but my GOD it was a dull two hours. Shot after shot of old, dead fairground "highlights" with a deadly serious narration about the "room of mirrors" changes people's lives forever as their imaginations run wild. Extremely depressing, richly bizarre in about three parts (those were the parts you'd keep for the short documentary - they were mildly entertaining) but if you can imagine a feature length documentary about the royal melbourne show, where each ride is examined in forensic detail but with no irony... you're almost there.

That'll teach us for picking at the last minute.

Saw two films last night. Exit (baffling) and Yella (baffling).

I am no longer in the mood to be baffled, and have decided that films whose sole result is the entire audience going, "So, hang on, he was the guy from before, with the gloves. Right? And he killed the first woman but her husband was the dude in the carpark making the telephone calls. Or were they the same person"? are now, officially, boring to me.

With that in mind, I will continue from here on with fresh eyes. Any one else got any recommendations?