The last 10 days I have seen around 40 movies at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2009. It was a good year (a little better than last year) with many interesting new movies. Especially the new Turkish cinema was fascinating to me with movies like Autumn, Journey to the Sun, Pandora's Box and Innocence. I liked the style, the pace, the metaphors and symbolism and the sharp conversations.
My personal favorite by far was Troubled Water, highly recommended. Cinema is about elevation in my view and this movie blew all my senses from the start, especially the outstanding and deeply moving musical scenes. Combined with a powerful and original story about love, transparency, honesty, redemption, forgiveness, sorrow and reconnection.
- Troubled Water
- Teza
- 35 Rhums
- Fixer
- Pandora's Box
- Tokyo Sonata
- Historias Extraordinarias
- Frozen River
- Rachel Getting Married
- Slumdog Millionaire
Hope to see you all next year. It was a blast!
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