VIFF: mime-mime

my rating: awesome

my blurbie:
a japanese woman directed this film about a slacker woman in her early 20s who works part-time and avoids her family and has occasional sex with her former teacher.

interestingly, this film starts with this woman giving her former teacher a blow-job. but there's no gratuitous nudity or showing of body parts.

i think it was good mumblecore with lots of ambience and awkward family scenes. the director was in the theatre and she looked like she was 20 years old herself. she said that she took a part-time job to make the film.

i'm pretty impressed and although the film was a little uneven, i liked where she was going and how she filmed it all.

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so at mime-mime, the guy sitting beside me was all friendly and chatting up the woman sitting on the other side of him and said hi to me. he was telling the woman that he volunteers at the 'english clubs' for some japanese and korean language schools in town.

i could tell he wanted to ask if i was japanese but i made sure not to look in his direction much so as to prevent further discussion.

so, here's the thing: this is the SECOND GUY who, at a japanese film screening, seems to be wanting to be friendly to me and ask me if i'm japanese.

i am so not impressed by this approach.

also, this dude was breathing rather loud.

yuck.