Sunday, October 18, 2009

Just saw Alexander Franchi's new movie THE WILD HUNT, based on a script by Alex and Mark Krupa. It's a wild story about a group of medieval re-enactors off for a weekend that starts full of zest and fun -- the movie has a lot of fun with the cross between high fictional style and the LARPers' reality -- and heads into madness and violence.

Tiio Horn is a revelation as the girl everyone's fighting over in real life and in the fantasy. Watch her become a star over the next five years.

It's a love story, and it's about how we need myth to elevate our lives, and it's about how our drive for love and our drive for meaning smash into our mundane lives And you don't know where it's heading, or what the rules are, and yet it's satisfying and inevitable by the end. No wonder the film won Best Canadian First Feature at TIFF.

And it's beautifully shot and cast and all that.

Nice work, Mr. Franchi!

Ah, if only real medieval re-enactments were this much fun.

(Full disclosure: I was a story consultant on the film. But it has way surpassed the script I gave notes on two years ago.)

UPDATE: THE WILD HUNT just won the Audience Award at Slamdance!

Labels: watching movies

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2 Comments:

Yeah, totally impressive! There were several other films at TIFF this year (Passenger Side, Gun to the Head, Cole) that show definite promise for the super- low-budget method of gettin 'er done.

By  Polly, at 10:45 AM  

Agreed. Tiio Horn is a star in the making.

By  Lisa Hunter, at 2:20 PM  

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