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
‘Plaff!’
Cuba, 1988, 90 minutes 4:30 p.m . A treat. An unusually bold Cuban import from Juan Carlos Tabio, who mixes tragicomic emotion and moralizing with witty allusions to his own behind-the-scenes film-making. The plot centers on a mystery less silly than it at first sounds: Who keeps lobbing eggs at the house of a beleaguered suburban matron? In tongue-in-cheek Agatha Christie fashion, prime suspects are ruled out one by one until the sad surprise denouement--which a self-mocking Tabio remembers to insert only after the closing credits have already begun to roll. RECOMMENDED .
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