September 8, 2008: Hooked
During the Toronto International Film Festival, I often get out to see a handful of films. The first of seven this year was Hooked, from Romania (original title: Pescuit sportiv).
The movie is about a couple heading out on a picnic who accidentally hit a prostitute at the roadside with their car. They think she’s dead and ponder what to do about it, and it turns out she’s alive. When she says she wants to go on their picnic with them, who are they to say no? To go further in depth about the plot, and perhaps to even discuss the movie at all, would be to give things away or to influence how readers perceive the movie. So how do people review movies like this?
My only comment will be that there really didn’t seem to be as many bugs as I would have expected beside a small lake such as where the group was picnicking.
Two of the producers, as well as one of the lead actresses from the film (Maria Dinulescu), were in the audience and participated in a Q&A after the film. Dinulescu did the speaking for them all, being far more fluent in English, and did quite a good job with what were actually reasonable questions. Good questions and good answers are not always available in such sessions.
The movie is well worth a look, although the chance of it seeing any theatrical release, or even a widely available video release, are minimal.
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