This year's
Fantasia Festival was lot of fun. Every year I say the festival was a lot of fun. We've been attending Fantasia for several years so to say this every year is a tribute to the people who plan the festival. The fun actually begins when the film line up is announced. We spend a couple of days reading about the movie selections then listing the movies each of us wants to see. We were lucky this year as both our first choices played on the same day. One screened in the early afternoon the other at night so we picked two other movies to watch in between.
A great fantasy art festival poster. The festival is held at Concordia University and people line up early for the movies.
Festival banner over Maisonneuve Blvd West. Most movies are shown in two theaters across the street from each other. We often leave one movie and hurry across Maisonneuve to stand in line for our next screening.
My first film choice was the 2009 South Korean movie by Park Chan-wook , Thirst. Above is the original post which was considered too risque/blasphemous.
Sanctioned Thirst poster with the relection of Concordia's Hall Theater lobby. Song Kang-ho was very good as the vampire priest. The movie was a little long or maybe seemed so as it was the fourth movie of the day for us. It switched back and forth between comedy and drama but that didn't lessen my enjoyment of the movie. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance is still my favorite Park movie with Thirst a close second.
The royal women of
Queens of Langkasuka dressed for battle. The costumes in the movie were wonderful.
The poster for the Thai 2008 movie,
Queens of Langkasuka, directed by Nonzee Nimibutr. This entertaining, action-packed historical film was my husband's first choice and his favorite at this year's festival.
This 2008 Korean independent film,
Daytime Drinking, was made for very little money. Written and directed by Noh Young-seok it had a good script, a good director and good actors. Very enjoyable and I hope to see more movies from the talented Noh.
Another version of the poster for Daytime Drinking.
The Japanese poster for
Dream written and directed by Kim Ki-duk.
The Korean poster for this 2008 movie with Japanese star Joe Odigiri and Korean actress Lee Na-yeong was visually beautiful. The storyline was interesting and clever but not entirely successful to this viewer. Previously I'd watched the DVD so seeing the movie on the big screen was entertaining as the sets were so stunning.
A "run on" photo of women walking along the street and our entering Montreal from the southern shore.
Trees and the tops of buildings around Concordia University where Fantasia Festival is held.
The area around Concordia University is under construction as seen in the top of the above photo. I took this photo on a Friday afternoon when there weren't a lot of people around.
Taken out the car window. Concordia Hall Theatre the larger venue for Fantasia Fest films. We've waited in line along the sunny side of the building for many many movies. I took the photo at 10:45 on a Friday morning, still too early to line up for the 1 o'clock movie.
