Remake Of A Remake Of A Remake

21 and 22 June – Work ... Hmm.  It’s all confidential, innit?  Kangaroo is a difficult meat to cook but when it’s done right it comes out very well.  Another Sydney Film Festival event, this time it was David Lynch’s latest.  Where to start?  It didn’t star Hugo Weaving (he has to wait until he’s asked) and it was, well, it was a David Lynch film.  Half of it in Polish, half of it in English, characters kept on changing, actors kept on changing, a film within a film, people in strange rabbit suits, his obligatory inexplicable lesbian scene ... Considering that apparently not even he knew what it was about it was actually pretty good.  Also very long and the State Theatre isn’t the place for very long movies – managed to stay awake throughout the entire thing which I was impressed with considering the efforts of some of the audience who shall remain nameless but it really wouldn’t have mattered to much – any one of the individual scenes could have been cut and it would have made no difference and it could have ended at any point in the last half hour and it would have made the same amount of sense but it did have some great music and some amazing shots on the Sony video so it was an evening fairly well spent.  Also, the strange Polish (Russian?) woman reminded me of my pre-stepmother and that was nostalgic.  Much more of a cinematic experience than the two that came on Friday night – The Descent, five sexy girls go caving and find themselves up against monsters ... And each other!  Basically, it was ‘Aliens’ underground (which itself was the sequel to Jaws In Space) which had already been remade quite recently in ‘Dog Soldiers’ so it wasn’t particularly amazing and the only thing that set it apart was the gender of the protagonists.  But even this was infinitely better than Somersault which seemed to be about a sexually advanced mentally and emotionally retarded girl and her adventures in Jindabyne (or was that Jindabyne?  How can there be two Australian movies about the same place so close together?).  I don’t know.