mommy - never seen xavier dolans films before, but this was brilliant. a bit like harmony korine, but a million times better - i.e. never felt he was trying too hard and it feels a lot more sincere, not exploitative. it was just a really funny melodramatic slightly fucked up look at a mother and son relationship that had this real power to it that i was not expecting (was thinking it would be dully observational and distant arthouse). lots of great catty dialogue and the guy playing the son has to win something. but it basically makes every other film ive seen recently look shit. well except wild tales.
wild tales - i wanted to clap at the end of this but didnt leave me thinking about it like mommy did. but still, pretty cathartic set of short films of characters getting righteous revenge on all sorts. the one about the parking ticket was especially good. why does no one in britain do films like this? or are they only on the occasional tv drama (which i dont tend to watch)?
i saw catch me daddy which i half recommend cos its good like these two films at doing raw, gut-level, visceral stuff, but i found its arthousey moments half interesting half derivative and also just judgemental ('oooh look how dour it is up north' - well thats an original perspective isnt it?). also found myself irritated by its tunnel vision approach to the subject. also found its racial representation kind of problematic.