Journal SmellsLike's Journal: MIFF 2007: Home Sung Songs

Met up with Viette and Michael at the Regent to see this movie on Saturday night. Movie started at 7:10. Before lights came down there was a short intro by the film festival director with the crazy hair and leather jacket he always seems to wear. Also a speech by the director who was from Melbourne and happy about premiering it here.

The movie was alot better than I expected. I've seen stories about migrants living in Australia before and been bored by them. This was alot better though as the story wasn't about migrants settling in. The story was about two kids trying to deal with their mum's bad life decisions with migrating to Australia serving as a backdrop.

At the end I came closest to crying that I've come to for a while. Extremely sad story but really good. It was set in the 70s too and the attention to detail was amazing. Almost too much I thought but Pen and Viette liked it. Some of the TV shows and music served well as helping make things more dramatic or light as needed. I'll definetely recommend it to friends.

After the movie the kid actors and some others came to the stage. Amazing how the little boy acted and we found out he got the role by finding an ad in the Age and calling up about it and making the audition. Both him and the girl, the two kids from the movie, seemed nervous by the attention and it was sweet to see. Nice antidote to actors up themselves.

Afterwards the four of us went to Supper Inn. After a bit of a wait for a table we got chinese sausage, fish with mushrooms, beef with bitter melon and some other food I didn't eat much of. The fish tasted really good which suprised me as I'm not a huge fan of fish. The beef with bitter melon was as wierd as I expected it to be. Also tasted good. Went home after that full and happy.