Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: CARMEN MEETS BORAT, 35 SHOTS OF RUM, PUBLIC ENEMIES
Carmen Meets Borat (top); 35 Shots of Rum (middle); Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard in Public Enemies (bottom)
Los Angeles Film Festival, Tuesday, June 23:
In Mercedes Stalenhoef’s Carmen Meets Borat (The Regent, 2 pm), a Romanian teenager dreams of going to Spain to escape the backwards town in which she lives. (The place is so backwards that she’s called "granny" because she remains unmarried at 17.) Inadvertently, Sacha Baron Cohen and his Borat crew change her life after they arrive in town to portray the locals as backwards Kazakhs. TV crews follow suit, and so do lawyers with the promise of hefty lawsuits. Will the adolescent’s Spanish Dream be able to come true?
Brent Meeske’s Branson, about struggling artists in the "Entertainment Capital [...]
