yesterday i saw my second film at siff entitled hana & alice at the egyptian theatre in capitol hill. it’s about two teenage japanese girls, with a plot like that how can it not be good?
just kidding, i’m not perverse. anyways it’s like while you were sleeping (which i kept calling sleepless in seattle for some reason) with a bizarre love triangle involving a boy, hana and alice. what makes it cute is that it’s a japanese film which american culture has a fascination with (see lost in translation), otherwise i think it would be a pretty average movie.
i would give hana & alice a four out of five. while i appreciate the time spent to develop the characters and show the changes in the friendship between hana and alice, i thought it could use some editing as there were certain parts that just dragged on (the movie was 2h 13m!). i also thought the music was excellent as well as the cinematography in certain scenes. the director was present for the screening so i sat through a short interview after the show. people asked some pretty dumb questions, but i guess he had some true fans there as he has made a lot of other japanese movies.
dinner was at bill’s off broadway. not too much thought was put into this and that was probably a bad idea because the service was slow. although i did order a hot italian sub and i guess what they mean by sub is pizza on toasted sub bread. interesting.
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