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