Film:High Heels
Director:Pedro Almodovar
Country:Spain
Year:1991

What I felt:
High Heels deals with the estranged relation between a mother and daughter. The mother, an actress returns home after 15 years to find out that the daughter has married her ex-lover. How they deal with the situation when he is alive and after he dies is what forms the story. I think Almodovar took a rather twisty road to explain the love between the daughter and mother. The point he wants to make does get driven home, but not after wondering why certain scenes, characters and dialogues were pushed into the narrative….looks a little forced at times. On the whole, it can be watched once for primarily two reasons:
-Victoria Abril who plays the daughter and
-Some sequences that really make you roll in the aisles.

-Aneesh Kamat

Film:Sportsman of the Century
Director:Mischa Alexander
Country:Netherlands
Year:2007

What I felt:
The greatest people in the world have the most amazing lives. I never knew the sport called ‘polesitting’ existed. Century’s best sportsman leads a great life struggling between his record and the society. At the end forces you to shed a tear for his outstanding feat. Every scene had a panoramic scenery.

Film:Cherries
Director:Jiabei Zhang
Country:China
Year:2007

I felt moved, moved with every twist. Felt really happy that I got to watch films like these which take me right there, into a different part of the globe. Cherries is a brilliant woven tale of an intellectually weak woman from a small village. She has just one desire - to have a child. Just this desire blossoms into a story, that takes you into a breathtaking journey of her life. This was one of the best films at PIFF, I feel.

- Badal Dixit