Locarno fails to impress The Guardian
The Guardian's David Cox didn't have a good time at Locarno. In fact, sounds like it was downright awful:
However, it wasn't such forlorn masterpieces that imprinted themselves on my consciousness. Rather, it was the more numerous specimens of Euro-arthouse endeavour that were grotesquely, unbelievably bad. No, actually a good bit worse than that. In some of these proud festival entries, not the faintest prospect of entertainment, stimulation or enlightenment was to be discerned.
How could these abominations ever have got past their creator's first two seconds of deliberation, let alone won funding from a regional film board, a festival invitation and respectful applause from an audience of supposed cinephiles?
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
Post a comment