Awesome director is awesome

The whole audience waited for his speech before the IFFR film
'Le Havre' started. There he stood, watching the ground, stumbling some phrases as if he doesn't speak English at all. Everyone instantly loved the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki.

His speech:
Thanks to my daughter....which i never had....Thanks to my grandma....for being born..... I'll do my best, but that's not much. But it's more than someone else's best....

Frozen alive

Today i worked at Rotterdam Central Station to help people finding the locations of International Film Festival.
Five hours outside in the rain, damnnnn. But besides the conditions it felt good to work for the festival again for a day.

IFFR 2012 started!

Today the International Film Festival Rotterdam started and i got all my tickets. Four movies this time (sure i wanna see more), because i'm not a millionaire [yet].

Woohoo once again, excited for this awesome festival!

7:24 bus to station - 7:46 train to Rotterdam - 8:00 waiting in line for IFFR tickets - 9:00 box office opened - 9:15 finally inside - 9:45 next in line - 10:00 buying tickets - 10:30 school

I promise to love you @ Kunsthal

Coming Thursday i'm invited for a job interview as volunteer at the 40th edition of IFFR. Yay excited, the best cultural festival of Rotterdam if you ask me. Looking forward to 26 Jan - 6 Feb.

Movie hotness

Leonardo DiCaprio & Tom Hardy

Today i had a busy kinda cultural day (sounds good lol). 

First i went to the Kunsthal museum with my mum, to visit the exposition 'Troostmeisjes' in general. 

After that we watched Bavaria City Racing in Rotterdam and in the evening i went to the films Inception & Salt. I thought Inception was truly amazing but Salt was just Angelina Jolie turned into a fighting-shooting-rolling-climbing-bleeding-jumping-kicking Russian spy superwoman.. Don't know, it was entertaining but overdone if you ask me..

Something i noticed at Inception was the fact Leonardo doesn't look chubby anymore + Tom Hardy is hot hot hot.

A day at the circus

the woman in red with the uncovered belly is friggin long pregnant already & still performing ö

Yesterday i went to a circus performance with my mum as an early Mother's Day gift. It was called Michto and performed by the French "La famille Morallès".

All the family members are multi talents (singing, trapeze acts, making music, juggling, acting, etc.) and even their kids from like 3-8 years old did amazing stunts. 

There were no animals in the show except from a tiny dog & some beautiful white doves, which they threated well (not really.. but okay). I thought it was a pretty great show, completely different from 'normal' circus performances! The show is part of the Circusstad Festival in Rotterdam which is from 1-5 May.   

Oh and after i made these pics a stressed out young girl -who's definitely a new employee there hehe- whispered to me it was not allowed to take pictures. Okay i respect that, but it sounded SO incredibly stupid, because the circus performers told like 5 minutes before that they accept cameras but only when it's without flash! Like what. Don't you speak English? 
They might be singing in French & Spanish but this was a clear English message. 

IFFR first-timer

Guten Tag,
Finally it's Thursday! Two days no school, how nice.
Yesterday the International Film Festival Rotterdam has started and this morning i've checked the programme to see which films i like to see. I chose about 15 movies, but i'm not that rich &
i haven't got time to check them all..

  Now i'm gonna visit the following three (if they're not sold out):

Vedozero  29-01 12.15
Italian teenagers film their everyday lives using cameras and mobile phones, while the film maker wonders how far one can talk about being an author when picture and sound are both in the hands of complete amateurs.

Let's fall in love  01-02 12.00 
A Taiwanese tragicomic documentary about the matchmaker Chen and his clients. Director Wuna Wu documents bickering couples with everyday irritations and deeper relationship problems.
 
J'ai tué ma mère  04-02 13.00
The 20-year-old Canadian Xavier Dolan wrote and directed this partly autobiographical debut and also played the leading role. A coming-of-age story about the self-assured homosexual Hubert who tries to find his place in the world but keeps getting into trouble with his mother.

I wanted to go to Yo, tambien & Un Prophète too, but i simply haven't got time for them.

Cultureee

Yesterday i've visited the museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam to see the exhibition The art of Fashion.
School ended early that day so i thought 'let's visit a museum'.
And so i went to Boijmans with a classmate.


First we visited the new video installation Laat je haar neer
(Lay your hair down), by Pipilotti Rist.
It is big rope net with pillows on it where you have to lay on, while watching some great arty videos. How relaxing! Although there was one video by John Bock that made me feel a bit sick, very fast shots of a man who is cooking food & smears it on himself etc. YUCK.
After chilling there for almost an hour, we decided to see the rest of the museum.


I liked 'The art of Fashion' a lot. It is exposed in a big hall, where you can walk around every piece of the exhibition, like you can see at the pic above.
Unfortunately i forgot to bring my camera with me, but i'll visit it again soon to take some pics too. Some pieces of the Belgian fashion designer Walter van Beirendonck made me laugh, like a funny sarcophagus he made for himself already & a matching sanctuary. Very childish looking with bright colours, the sun, and dicks.... I have to take a pic of it next time!
For the rest there are pieces of Viktor & Rolf, Comme des Garcons, the famous airmail dress of Hussein Chalayan and more.

The art of Fashion lasts until 10 Januari 2010

-pictures by Hans Wilschut/Ernst Moritz