#2
Tom at the Farm
dir.Xavier Dolan
Xavier Dolan‘s Tom at the Farm is an adaptation of Michel Marc Bouchard’s play “Tom à la Ferme” and yes, I’ve read the synopsis below, but only quickly and to be honest have no real idea what the film is about, nor do I care. I saw Dolan’s Laurence Anyways at the Cannes Film Festival last year and swore I would watch his two previous films upon returning home. As it turns out, it took me more than a year to watch both I Killed Your Mother and Heartbeats, but in the last couple days I watched them noth and just know Dolan is my kind of filmmaker. Heartbeats is probably my least favorite of the three, but even still I see it as a special film if not only for the many references to Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders.
I simply can’t wait to see this film.
Tom, a young advertising copywriter, travels to the country for a funeral. There, he’s shocked to find out no one knows who he is, or his relationship to the deceased, whose brother soon sets the rules of a twisted game. In order to protect the family’s name and grieving mother, Tom now has to play the peacekeeper in a household whose obscure past bodes even greater darkness for his trip to the farm.
#1
Gravity
dir.Alfonso Cuaron
I feel I’ve written so much about this film already that there isn’t anything more to say. Crazier is the fact I’ve written so much about it and have only seen one of the film’s trailers in its entirety, though it seems the true experience with Gravity is experiencing the story as much as it is knowing it. That said, here’s the plot followed by the trailer. I truly hope this one lives up to the hype.
Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone–tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth…and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.
