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The film, oddly, gives us almost no sense of the women in this community, but it is a true ministry of presence to the men. (Plays Feb. 14 and 16) I hope no U.S. filmmaker decides to make a biopic about Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland's Solidarity movement, because it is way more satisfying to watch "W alesa: M an ofHope" (7). The film tracks the 19- year period in which the young Walesa rose from a simple shipyard electrician into the leader of a move ment that toppled the Communist system in Poland. I suspect that the politics here may be a bit too complex to really do themjustice, but the filmmaker wisely' focuses on Walesa's ballsy person ality and his relationship with his longsuffering wife Danuta. The ac “The Good Road," a film from India and one of last weekend’s tor who plays Walesa bears an un entries at the Portland International Film Festival, is about two canny resemblance to the real hero children lost in the Kutch desert of Gujarat and features three and the film feels very grounded in intertwined stories of journeys gone awry. PIFF continues Polish culture and experience. Now through Feb. 22. For an updated schedule, visit nwfilm.org. if this fascinating film can just find an audience here in the U.S. (Plays along with the color and the sense set in the 16th century. Kohlhaas is Feb. 17 and 20) of a sort of code that governs the a successful horse trader who gets These films have completed their communities in this sparse area of into a conflict with a wicked baron festival run, but are worth watch India. which escalates into an all-out war watching for on Netflix or a DVD “The Good Road” also features when the corrupt legal system of the release: a w onderful soundtrack with tim e u tte rly fails to acco rd ' 'The Good Road" (7.5) isadepic- acoustic Gujarati folk music. Kohlhaas's claim its fair due. A man tion of a part o f Indian culture that A ccording to Jon Savage's of conscience who inspires loyalty rarely makes it to American audi book, Teenage: The Creation of in his farmhands and community, ences. It is set in the rural desert Youth 1875-1945, the concept of Kohlhaas refuses to drop his griev roads of Kutch, a remote region of youth culture that now pervades ances as expected of a man of his Gujarat, and features three inter Western thought is a relatively new class and becomes a formidable foe twined stories of journeys gone concept that evolved during those to the ruling class. awry. years. The U.S. docum entary The film is less interested in the The first story involves a middle- "T eenage" (7) gives us a visual battles (a la Braveheart) and more class city couple who, en route to depiction of that evolution, mak interested in the twistedjogic of the their vacation destination, inadvert ing use of an effective combination church and royalty of the time, which ently leave their seven-year-old son of impressionistic archival footage imposes on a man like Kohlhaas a behind at a roadside restaurant. and first-person narratives chroni moral obligation to avoid respond Their ordeal intersects with that of cling the experiences of teens in ing to wrong with violence. By that a taciturn truck driver and his assis the U.S., Britain, and Germany dur twisted logic, Kohlhaas's efforts fi tant, who are embroiled in an illegal ing those years. It charts the im nally move the ruling class to give scheme. The two end up traveling pact of the emergence of child la him his due, but also to extract the with the missing boy, and part of the bor laws in creating more of a di ultimate price. film's charm is watching the boy vide between childhood and adult Given the cancellations last week worm his way into their companion hood and documents such move end, it will be especially important to ship. ments as the Boy Scouts, the Nazi check the Northwest Film Center's The final story involves a young Youth, and various party trends, website (nwfilm.org) for updates to orphan girl who is trying to get to dance crazes, and youth move the entire Portland International Film the city where her grandmother lives, ments that resulted in our now very- Festival schedule. More to come! and encounters a strange and lovely pervasive sense of adolescents as Darleen Ortega is a judge on the community of young girls. The film's cultural drivers. Oregon Court o f Appeals and the handling of the menace underlying Finally, U.S. filmmakers rarely first woman o f color to serve in that this community is interestingly un make historical epics with the moral capacity. Her movie review column derstated. The filmmaker has a de complexity of "Age of Uprising: Opinionated Judge appears regu lightfully subtle approach to devel The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas'' larly in The Portland Observer. You oping these characters and the (6.5). Danish heartthrob Mads can f i n d h e r m o vie b lo g a t ominous dangers that beset them, Mikkelsen stars in this French film opinionatedjudge. blogspot. com.
