R&A, the first day
The first day of exposure to new and unusual movies at the annual Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa festival began with a trio of films. While this entry covers multiple movies, regular service will resume for the rest of the program.
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson was exactly what the name points out. A ninety minute journey into the life of the guy who created his own brand of journalism. The involvement of Johnny Depp (who played the author in Terry Gilliam’s 1998 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) is surprisingly small role. The movie consists of interviews and monologues, and quite a few outtakes from Gilliam’s movie (which do not really add anything). Three stars.
I thought Gogol Bordello Non Stop would be a full-length concert video, but was sadly mistaken. The film details the life and times of the world’s premiere gypsypunk band, but has not got very much music in it. The interviews with the raving eastern europeans start off interesting, but begin to loop the very same loop quickly. Two stars.
Preceding Timecrimes was perhaps the gloomiest short movie I’ve seen this side of the millennium - being exposed to theory and practice of euthanasia was not an ideal kickoff to a weirdly familiar film about time travel paradoxes. I’m sure I would’ve enjoyed the movie a lot more had I actually been fully awake, and will thus refrain from giving it a rating. The big twist was pretty much apparent from the onset, but the story did take a couple of interesting shortcuts working through to the conclusion.
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