Mexico City film festival creates new screening category for wierd movies
The International Festival of Contemporary Cinema (FICCO) launched in Mexico City yesterday, and according to The News, there are five films on the program that are “so bizarre, so completely outside any conventional genre, that it appears organizers liked them, but couldn’t figure out what to do with them.”
So a category called “11:59″ was created for the five films, which will be screened one minute before midnight due to “interest, audience and the intensity of their content.”
Those five extraordinary films, accompanied by their trailers, are:
“Mártires / Martyrs”), a French horror movie written and directed by Pascal Laughier (even the trailer is not the the faint-hearted).
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“Vinyan” directed by Fabrice Du Welz, in which a French couple search
for their son in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami.
“Angeles e idiotas / Idiots & Angels”), an animated feature by Illustrator/artist/director Bill Plympton.
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“Let the Right One In / Låt den rätte komma in”). What’s more terrifying than a Scandinavian children’s love story? The
answer, probably, is this film, where the little girl is a vampire, writes the News.
“El Bueno, El Malo y El Raro / The Good, the Bad and the Weird / Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom” – a Korean Western.
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You can find screening times for the whole festival and other information here on the FICCO website.
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