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
‘Ginger Ale Afternoon’
United States, 1988, 94 minutes
4:30 p.m. Sassy and sensual, this adaptation of Gina Wendkos’ play about a California trailer court couple--a very pregnant wife, an unemployed philandering husband--becomes a deeply touching affair. It’s partly because of Dana Anderson as the nagging, loving wife and John M. Jackson as the exasperated husband, as well as bubble-gum-voiced Yeardly Smith as his baby-doll mistress. The film’s other pluses come from director Rafal Zielinski, cinematographer Yuri Neyman (“Liquid Sky”), and the great blues score by Willie Dixon. RECOMMENDED.
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