Reviews of Today’s AFI Film Fest
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:
‘Misplaced’
United States, 1989, 95 minutes 7:15 p.m. After “Anna,” this more mainstream treatment of a dignified, middle-aged Polish immigrant shunted to the lowest rung of the American ladder seems a tad on the tame side, but rings mostly true. Writer-director Louis Yansen, a Polish native himself, offers few new insights into American insensitivity toward inductees to the democratic clique. But his assured first-time direction elicits sensitive, convincing work from the accented and non-accented cast alike.
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