Here's our top picks, watch out for that weird French sex forest movie that didn't make the list and if someone says that want to see it it because it's art, they're just a perv. Remember, women can be pervs too.
Deerskin
Chinese 4
November 16, 11:15 p.m.
Chinese 6
November 17, 1:00 p.m.From the ever strange and very meta Quentin Dupieux of Rubber fame, comes his latest work Deerskin. A men gets a Deerskin jacket which makes him bold enough to start killing people. It'll be some kooky fun and we kind of wish would have been in the Midnight section;say la vie.
SON-MOTHER (PESAR-MADAR)
Chinese 2
November 19, 8:00 p.m.
Chinese 4
November 20, 3:45 p.m.Time to cry and this drama. It's gonna be waterworks at this depressing piece.
Synopsis: When Leila, a single working mother of two, is laid off from her factory job, she faces a choice: marry bus driver Kazem, a single father who is ardently pursuing her, or live with her children on the streets. The marriage proposal comes with a catch — due to Iranian custom, it is deemed improper for Leila’s twelve-year-old son Amir to share the house with a young step sister. Leila is convinced to marry Kazem and have her son temporarily boarded at a school for deaf children. At the school, Amir pretends to be deaf and unable to speak, awaiting his mother to retrieve him.
Chinese 6
November 15, 7:30 p.m.
Chinese 6
November 16, 2:45 p.m.
*Heist Movie!
Romanian auteur Corneliu Porumboiu returns to AFI FEST with his latest, a
tremendously entertaining and inventive crime thriller. When corrupt
police officer Cristi is drawn into an elaborate money laundering
scheme, ubiquitous hidden cameras threaten to expose him. At once
instigator and accomplice, the beautiful, calculating Gilda, arranges
for him to travel to the Canary Island of La Gomera to learn an
indigenous whistling language long used by criminals and gangsters to
evade authorities. Constructing a preposterously complicated network of
deception, an epically proportioned heist plot unravels into a true
ensemble piece, one brimming with captivating personalities, each
sheltering unknowable motives. THE WHISTLERS may herald a fascinating
departure for Porumboiu, but flashes of a droll sense of humor flicker
under a stone-faced seriousness. –Malin Kan
