MAMI Review: To Each His Own...
Frankly speaking I had serious doubts about the content of this movie. And it was actually this very content that literally dragged me to the theatre. Needless to say it was a Herculean task to put together a project of mammoth proportions like this one.
Two years ago when Cannes Film Festival President Gilles Jacob commissioned 35 directors across five continents and 25 countries to make 33 films with a maximum duration of 3 minutes, people were taken aback. It was a part of a tribute to world cinema funded by Cannes Film Festival on their 60th Anniversary. This is the first time the film got screened in India. And one has to admit that watching this film was not only pleasurable but also an experience to cherish for life.
Titled – To Each His Own Cinema, this film can be called a cultural collage. None of the directors knew anything about the others' fragments and was totally free to make his own three-minute film on a common theme of 'the movie theatre' - a place sacred to film buffs across the globe. The title of the full-length feature was inspired by the variety of cultures, backgrounds, and talents that finally came together.
Thirty-three individual works have combined to create a collective celebration. This unique composition is not merely a mechanical series of views of movie theatres. Instead, it creates an ever-changing vista of unlikely encounters in an astonishing variety of theatres.
Some of the snippets come across as completely abstract and is completely up to the viewer to decide. Some of them are worth mentioning. For instance, Roman Polanski's Cinema Erotique which got an instant applause in the auditorium can surely be called one of the best. In Cinema Erotique, Polanski pulls a fine joke on a show of an old soft-core sex film Emmanuelle.
Yes.This is ramkamal who takes his pen as well pains to praise and admonish the international film authorities for their genuinely noble and at the same time infamously negligent of focussing indian talents who are even the ideals of many foreign film-makers. Hats of 2 u