toronto film festival: day 5

taking on a wide spectrum of topics, anthony minghella's beautifully subtle breaking and entering looks at how the diverse immigrant influx over the past couple of years affects (or in some cases, sadly doesn't) a group of londeners.

with jude law (in his best performance ever) playing an architect who's studio gets ransacked by a bosnian teen, the film slowly weaves a complex emotional web that includes his distant wife (robin wright penn) and the mother of the teen (played by the brilliant juliette binoche).

the fact that many of the actors have worked with minghella before really allows for this story to unfold carefully. like the filmmaker (who is the nicest guy you can interview), through sensitivity and tenderness comes a devastating truth of the urban landscape many of us live in.

when talking about the next film, the premise alone still makes me giggle. basically, two environmental activists let loose an experimented on labLAMB, a quiet rural farm in new zealand becomes a breeding ground for man-eating sheep.

black sheep has the spirit of early peter jackson and sam raimi (jackson's weta workshop created all the monsters), but lacks the savvy of the aformentioned directors. the one joke wears thin pretty quickly and i was left hoping that at some point, i was going to be proven wrong in my cynicism. i wasn't. shame really.

i was quickly experiencing a bad horror movie day because 30 minutes into the schlocky trapped ashes i had enough of the blood sucking boobies and haunted monks. oh well... i went out to dinner instead.