Greg & Gentillion
At every festival, there are good surprises—films that you didn’t have any expectations for a film that you select to fill a gap between 2 other films. Every once in a while, one of those film turns out to be a masterpiece and one of the best films you saw at that festival. This was the case for the uproarious Greg & Gentillion. Cleverly crafted, the film follows the adventures of 2 French Canadian stand up comics who leave their small village in Quebec in order to make it at the the very top of the industry in Toronto. The process isn’t pain-free for them, but boy is this funny to see their adventures (or rather misadventures) as they dramatically unfold. The film is filled with corky events and hilarious remarks by the two comics and their nearly incompetent manager. The film is fucking funny … one of the funniest things ever. As a reviewer said at the Calgary Film Festival, “If you miss it you’re a total mental fart”.
Cache Cache (Peekaboo)
After “Ghost House” at Fantasia, Montreal is visited by yet another foreign ghost. This time is French and he’s a man in his 40s who’s been haunting ever since his death the house from which he was evicted several decades ago. He ain’t no respectable ghost though ; he can’t even go through walls (pfff … amateur) and he’s dramatically unable to scare people—for that the family’s two children and their dog have a strong fascination for him. Soon you start to wonder about whether or not this really a ghost or simply the product of the imagination of the children—and the mother who’d rather blame the ghost for hiding the car keys than to admitting she’s misplaced them! Throughout the film the extraordinary is put side to side with the ordinariness of every day life and it cleverly provides a new perspective on life and its simple and often insignificant events.
