Summary
As the dark messenger who annually predicts another six weeks of winter each year on the second of February in die weadier capital of Punxsutawney, Penn., The Shadow feels the weight of his responsibility is too much to handle and runs off to bask in the eternal summer of Tijuana, Mexico. When The Groundhog discovers the absence of his shadow (his friend, The Shadow, diat is, because on camera-thanks to some fierce sunlight and bright indoor lights-The Groundhog's actual shadow is dramatically present), he's in hot pursuit. Together, die two embark on a journey that's often led by the ignoble impulses of The Shadow, but one, nonetheless, diat's an evolution toward a life of responsibility.
A first feature film from writer and director [Todd Rohal], The Guatemalan Handshake is the kind of movie diat refuses to be buried in the middle of the festival lineup. Unfortunately for those that come after it, Handshake makes for a hard act to follow. Boil Rohal's film down to rwo words applied cosmically, socially, metaphorically, literally and you get "demolition derby." If your film diet of late has consisted of empty entertainment calories and blockbuster substitutes, it's possible to walk out of diis screening feeling like die hood ornament on Sadie's hot pink derby-winning hunk of junk (a lean, mean crashing machine of which she took command following the disappearance of her boyfriend after a massive power outage caused by an explosive power plant employee, who later takes a job at the local roller skating rink, is the bearer of unrequited love for her sister and, eventually, becomes her potential suitor in her pregnant, abandoned, broken-arm existence-a state of being she shares, however ambiguously, with a lone female camper named Turkeylegs, a slighdy deranged friend of her boyfriend's father, her uber-macho derby champion father, a silent former yodeler, a woman who attends her own funeral, and the firecracker-crazy, car-obsessed fatiier of her missing boyfriend). Deep breath ... yep, that's pretty much what it's like to sit through the film.See the full content of this document
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True West Cinema Festival
From a diminutive selection of locally grown and internationally touring film festivals screening in Idaho each year, True West Cinema Festival has climbed to the top of the heap to emerge as a filmmaker's film festival. While similar events in the valley have a reputation for being overblown productions catering to the masses, True West, ...
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