Fantastic Film Festival Australia, 23 April to 15 May.Film festival mode is now complete having been to Lido to see another 30 movies since Hokum. I keep the film reviews and reflections to my Letterboxd account so I won't be repeating all that here. Instead, a few summed thoughts.Going to see an entire film festival program* means letting someone else completely curate your experience. It's not the same as picking out five or 10 films that look appealing because doing that means missing out on all the other ones. When someone else is in charge of choosing, you open up far greater possibility of surprises. I highly recommend doing this.This year's program was very strong on folk horror, particularly the trio of Rabbit Trap, The Holy Boy and Her Will Be Done. Whatever my favourite movie was, it was one of those three.Another huge highlight was the absolute nonsense that is Radu Jude's Dracula, Twilight (which I had never seen before) and the gloriously awful vanity project The…
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