Australia is mostly known as the continent of impossible things. The trees there grow from underneath the rock, bears sleep up high in the trees and birds do not fly but run faster than Olympic sportsmen. The land of the world’s most impossible things holds a cinema festival once a year, calling it the New Zealand International Film Festival.
This time, it was even more impossible than you can imagine. The films featured by the Zealand critics as the best ones of the year 2010 were not very numerous – actually, this year they reduced their quantity to five movies.
Anyway, the one that went for number one was the film produced by Sergio Leone , called Once Upon a Time in the West. The name could have probably told you that this is a classical western, with all attributes attached. Westerns are rather hard to film since the plot is defined by the genre, and to create something original sounds like a pain in the neck. I could order a college essay paper at a law essay writing service on how film genres get exhausted after a long-term use to feed the hungry public. The second film was a drama called Animal Kingdom. It was a great wonder, but documentaries won the third, the fourth and the fifth places. Exit Through the Gift Shop , Free China Junk and Paris Opera Ballet they were.
The festival was not very pompous, but it marked the best films of 2010 and congratulated the winners on their victory.
