Beautiful Feet

photo: Film Factory Entertainment The Blind Christ or  El Cristo Ciego   (Christopher Murray, 2016, Chilean) with   P edro Godoy, Ana María Henríquez, Bastián Insotroza, and local extras. If you like quiet, slow films, you'll enjoy this story about pilgrimage, told by a prophet, often in parables. The character (and indeed the mood) often reminded me of the silent, watching Christ figure in Kieslowski's Dekalog. Fairly sure my film theology prof Adelmo Dunghe would put this on his list of transcendent films! Poetic and at times painful to watch, both visually and emotionally. Loved it.  ~ At age five, my son said, "I was born because God knew I needed a mum." Out of the mouths of babes...

Two women, two decades apart, are fed up, and they both decide to do something about it. You'll barely recognize Elijah Wood or Crazy Rose from Two and a Half Men : Melanie Lynskey is showing her true acting chops. This super-quirky film is violent, but the humour is a balm in this crazy story about a not crazy value. Basically, character Ruth just wants everyone to stop being assholes to each other. It's original in myriad ways, and a real delight as a change from Schmollywood productions, from the soundtrack right down to the real, Oregonian fireflies in the last scene. 2017, Accessed on Netflix. Director:  Macon Blair Starring:  Elijah Wood, Melanie Lynskey, David Yow, Devon Graye, Christine Woods, Jane Levy, Gary Anthony Williams, Robert Longstreet My Happy Family People being assholes in different, Georgian ways (and ways as yet unknown to our heroine), this is also funny but with a little more pathos than dark humour. And it has a great  ending. ...