toronto film festival: day 8

one of the nice things about the latter half of a festival is that you're pretty much done with interviews and stuff. the unfortunate thing about toronto is that they don't keep that in consideration when it comes to scheduling films for the press to see. so with not much on my viewing platter, i decided to sleep in today.

i did wake up just in time to check out the supposedly controversial film the bubble by director eytan fox.

making a name for himself as a director who tackles the issues of the liberal youth in isreal, eytan films mainly focus on relationships between the straights, the gays and the in between.

for 'the bubble', eytan looks at a doomed romance between an isreali ex-soldier, his palestinian boyfriend and those that they affect along the way. in some ways, it was nice to see a slice of life film about the liberally young in tel aviv, but the heavy handed political message that takes over halfway just bogs down the movie to the point that you just don't care what happens to these people in the end.

bleh. i should have stayed in bed...