Day Two: Promise in the Dark

The morning started out cold and fascinating with 'Force Majeure', about the 'prefect' family staying at a fancy French Alps ski resort. When an avalanche hits the resort, the fathers' reaction to the near disaster becomes the subject of the film. Beautifully shot, good cast and story - and best of all it made me look forward to the upcoming ski season. But speaking of c-c-c-c-c-old, these damn theatres have their air con cranked up so high that I have to wrap myself up in a blanket.

Today Al Pacino played a star who can act no more in The Humbling.

The Hollywood powerhouse Al Pacino stepped from his streeeeeeetch limo with his girlfriend, Lucila Sola, for the North American premiere of The Humbling. Pacino plays over-the-hill stage actor, in love with a woman a third his age (cough, cough) Simon Axler, in the big screen adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2009 novel. The supporting cast features familiar faces like Francis Ha’s Greta Gerwig, Edward Scissorhands's Dianne Wiest and The Closer’s Kyra Sedgwick.

By far, the best movie of the day was 'Hungry Hearts', starring Adam Driver and newcomer
Alba Rohrwacher as young Brooklynites who fall in love, get pregnant then married. The wife becomes obsessed with the child to the detriment of his health. Their relationship and story is fresh and hard and great. Look forward to playing the film when it gets picked up.