Weekend Highlights for L.A. International Film Festival
The American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival continues at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas this weekend. Highlights from today’s and Sunday’s program follow.
TODAY
‘A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings’
Cuba/Italy/Spain, 1988, 90 minutes 4:15 p.m .
How would we treat an angel--even a very shabby one--if it landed among us? Another one of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez-scripted films taken from one of his short stories, and it just misses: Argentine director-star Fernando Birri gives us a buzzing hive of corrupt realistic humanity and tongue-in-cheek fantasy, but he doesn’t extend far enough the gentleness or lyricism at the story’s core. RECOMMENDED
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