I'm afraid you got Hong and Im confused. I only have seen I'm's President's Big Bang, so I was leaving open the possibliity that I might like his work as much as Hong otherwise. I know who Hong is, and certainly remember what I saw of his at the New York Film Festival and wrote reviews of two years in a row; I also saw Woman Is the Future of Man in a theater. But you're attributing his films to Im, whose only film that I've seen is The President's Big Bang.
As for Peter--sorry, Pedro--Costa's Colossal Youth, there's no way of knowing, but Kevin Lee seems to like it, not that my taste and Lee's are identical, but that suggests a degree of interest. (You could read ten essays like Lee's and still not know if you are going to like it. ) It seems to have been discussed on Strictly Film School, but Acquerello's poetic prose leaves it even more ambiguous than Lee's as to whether or not one would like the film; one can only see why people walk out. There is no way of knowing from reviews whether I would like it or not, really. But I can see you are right to warn me. Now you can say you did.
Some would walk out of Los Muertos. I actually only went to it because Travis said it was great.
Do you think taking Spanish language as a category is wrong, hence your equivocal comment on whether the SF festival's selection thereof is strong or weak? I assume the Miami selection is stronger, clearly? But my point is, you are more qualified to cover that area. And your polite ambiguity aside, I gather Miami covers it better than San Francisco. I have yet to figure out where San Franicicso is strong; perhaps, not untypically, in a certain showmanship, and in the sidebar events and their way of drawing on local talent. But of course I guess everybody does that, and Cannes and Berlin and Venice etc. can draw on all of Europe.
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