Hoo boy. If you’re sleep deprived and just had a big, carb-ridden lunch, watching a slow, bleak Dutch film in a theatre with reclining chairs is not, I repeat not, a good idea. And I wasn’t kidding when I said that Katia’s Sister (tiff08) was slow and bleak. Very Dogme 95: no music, no effects, and, one could argue, no plot. Very little in the way of interesting dialogue too. Katia’s sister was a 13 year old struggling to keep a semblance of order and calm in her life despite the chaos around her, but I found that I didn’t care enough about any of these characters to worry or wonder. I wasn’t into it at all. Nellie fell asleep. It wasn’t bad, but goddamn you’d better be in the mood for a dreary, slow-paced foreign film if you sit down to this one.

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[tags]tiff, tiff08, katia’s sister[/tags]