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I was supposed to go out with teh best friend to a coffee shop or something, dunno, but she never texted me back to say where we were meeting so it came down to nothing. Oh well. The whole gang's supposed to go to a sushi buffet (wtf?) next week. Ah, if I only liked sushi... (I don't have a problem with sushi per se. I have a problem with fish and seafood and things that usually live underwater on general. Won't eat them in any way, ew.)

But anyway, the International Film Festival is here! YAY!! I really do have to make myself a nice movie-going schedule, I only got to see two movies last year, woe. (and one of those sucked.)

So today I went to see this fantastical Danish movie, After the Wedding, about a man that has to go back to Denmark in order to find funds for the orphanage he runs in India, and has his whole life turned upside down in the process. It's just such a good film - the story and acting is solid, the cinematography is absolutely stunning, and it's really well shot; there are a lot of close-ups, which makes it so... intimate, in a way. It had me in tears at the end, and it stays with you, which I love in a movie.

The director (a girl director! I always get all giddy with girl directors, there's so few of them, boo) is supposed to be part of the Dogma 95 group (or at least influenced), but I don't see it as much - the photography is far too bright and the camera angles too interesting to really fit their philosophy. But whatever.