Highlights of Today’s AFI/LA Film Festival
Following are capsule reviews of today’s screenings in the American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas:
‘A Soldier’s Tale’
New Zealand, 1988, 90 minutes 9 p.m. Well-meaning but ponderous and improbable wartime romance, adapted by New Zealand director Larry Parr and Grant Hindin from M.K. Joseph’s novel. In 1944 Normandy, a British soldier (well-played by Gabriel Byrne) and a young French woman (Marianne Basler) accused of treason by the French Resistance share a brief interlude. Sincere, beautifully shot in Normandy by Alun Bollinger, but sorely lacking in style and conviction.
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