French Film Festival

I'm actually really excited about the French Film Festival.  I was pretty apathetic about it in the beginning of the semester when you told us we had to go, but my feelings have changed.  Actually, to be honest, I was initially a little bit apprehensive about the festival because I took French for four years, went to France for 2 months, yet I can barely speak it anymore, and I was a bit nervous that this would just be rubbing in my face how little I remember.  My family at home actually has a Corsican exchange student with whom I lived when I was in France (she's a family friend) and while I was in Corsica I saw a lot of French films/attended mini festivals with her and her mother because they are both very into film.  So, after viewing some of the trailers for the films at the festival, I perked up a bit and remembered how much I enjoyed what I saw while I was abroad.

Tonight I'm going to see Un soir au club and Renoir.  I have to say, the Renoir trailer is very well done, and I'm really excited about seeing it--I actually got chills watching the trailer.  If I can, I'd like to see Main dans la main on Friday or the short films on Saturday.  When I read the description/summary for Main dans la main ("Hand In Hand"), I though "Aw, a love story!" But after seeing the trailer I realized it's closer to 500 Days of Summer than it is to The Notebook.  That is, it looks like a witty love story, and it also incorporates fine art into it, which I found interesting.  That's also good because I'm a total sap for romantic movies and I didn't really want to start crying in the middle of a large crowd.

I'll be bringing my camera to the French Film Festival to take pictures and video.  I really like photography (and film, to an extent) and I think documenting most anything about a film festival has the potential to be displayed in a very interesting way.  I'm a psychology and sociology double major, so such a gathering of people intrigues me and piques my interest about patterns in how people act, the customs of such an event, the culture, etc.  I can't promise I'll emerge from the festival with a compilation video, but I will certainly have photographs.