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.
SUNDAY
‘Ashik Kerib’
Soviet Union, 1988, 90 minutes 6:30 p.m. Co-director Sergei Paradjanov (“Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors,” “The Color of Pomegranates”) has created another rapturously strange, eccentric fairy tale: a poor minstrel’s 7-year odyssey to prevent his loved one from forced marriage by her Turkish merchant father. This simple story becomes a visual feast, filled with fruits, silks, castles, camels, birds, magical landscapes, mysterious hills and plains--as Paradjanov and co-director David Abachidze give us the tale in painterly images, constant music and two layers of narration and mime. Great: my nominee, among those I saw, for the Festival’s most extraordinary film. RECOMMENDED.
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