Barefoot To Goa
(April 10th – India)
Director: Praveen Morchhale / Writer(s): Praveen Morchhale and Chetan Itape (associate writer)
Cast: Sonu Chourasia, Ajay Chourey, Farrukh Jaffar
Synopsis: Two children set out on a journey to see their ailing grandmother who their parents have all but abandoned.
Opinion: I enjoy family films that can be brutally honest while stil tugging at the heartstrings. Barefoot To Goa appears to be such a film. Sometimes children can keep their perspective when adults have lost sight to what is important in life. This may be the underdog of the year.
Vampire In Love
(April 17th – Japan)
Director: Mai Suzuki / Writer(s): Mai Suzuki
Cast: Ekin Cheng, Mirei Kiritani, Summer Meng, Seichi Tanabe
Synopsis: Kiira appears like any other ordinary girl, who likes to play with her friends and dreams of becoming a world reknown baker. But she has a secret she has been hiding and she hasn’t even told her childhood Tetsu she’s a vampire. After losing her parents at age 12 Kiira is shuffled off to relatives and loses contact with him.
Now eight years later, Tetsu walks into the bakery where Kiira is working part-time. Excited to see her childhood crush she starts to develop adult feelings for him. But what of her secret? Can Kiira have a life with Tetsu without revealing she is a vampire?
Opinion: This looks to be a film that couples can see without leaving the male part of the relationship feeling alienated. As a guy it would pain me to be dragged to a vampire/human relationship film where the actors have wind blowing throw their hair. Twilight appears to have no influence on Suzuki’s work. What the end result might be is a light-hearted romance with the subject of vampirism being just one of those bumps on the road to marital bliss. And that is fine by me.
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