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Saturday, October 13, 2007
PLANET MORE THAN PRICELESS 

If nothing else, last night’s fest-closer in Vancouver--the ritzy French farce Priceless, with Amelie’s Audrey Tautou as a Cote d’Azur golddigger whose latest “catch” turns out to tend bar--served to prep the well-dressed crowd for an aptly swank afterparty at the Sheraton Wall Center. Maybe it even warned a few wealthy spouses with roving eyes not to mistake one of the Sheraton’s expert cocktail-mixers for the next Mr. Moneybags.

But for this decidedly non-bourgie reviewer, Priceless wasn’t worth a Canadian nickel past the first half-hour; indeed, the sight of Tautou and Gad Elmaleh’s hardly suave martini man squirming in bed sent the sleepy critic straight back to the hotel, where clean sheets and a DVD of the VIFF’s, um, Young People Fucking awaited.

Likewise more valuable than Priceless was the $25,000 cash-prize award--announced before the screening--to The Planet, one of nearly a dozen films in the fest’s “Climate for Change” series, sponsored by the pro-Earth activists at Kyoto Planet. Not a Nobel Prize, perhaps, but a little green won’t hurt The Planet--nor its three heretofore unknown Swedish directors (Michael Stenberg, Johan Soderberg, and Linus Torell).


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# posted by Rob Nelson @ 10/13/2007 07:23:00 PM
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