I vote for Sons of Babylon, --preview--- it is about a boy & his grandmother (pictured above) as they travel around Iraq in post Saddam era. The preview ignites my curiosity and excitement so much. I am excited to have a human story to give face to Iraq. I have had an irrevocable affect on Iraq, the people and the future; all without personally lifting a finger. And I do not even know what that effect really means. I am so ready for this movie.
Bombay Summer. Part of why I am so excited about his movie is Joseph Mathew, who wrote, produced and directed this movie. I think he is a bad ass: leaving India in '94 to study finance in the USA, then realising that he was a creative and joined the Associated Press to work on photojournalism and film making, and making 2 awesome documentaries and now there is Bombay Summer, his first feature movie. It follows a career woman who falls in love with an artist, the story is about kindred spirits, self discovery, rural vs. city life and when life forces you to make decisions. And it is set in India.
and maybe Hipsters, set in 1950s Soviet Union, its a musical whose heroine lives in a "kaleidoscopic world of fashion, jazz, music and swing dancing."* I cannot help but be reminded of the book The Unbearable Lightness of Being (the best book ever and AdS' favorite- even though the book is from a different time (1970s) and takes place in the satellite states, not USSR like the movie. I think I will love the crazy female character and the excitement of loving life against such outright oppression. A review from the tronto film festival best describes the movie as "a vibrant musical (that) might not be what you'd expect from contemporary Russian cinema, but Valery Toforovsky's Hipsters is an Iron Curtain version of Swing Kids meets Hairspray, bursting with razzle, dazzle and of course, rhythm."
*quotes from Variety weekly edition meiff section
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