THE LIAR ★☆

I think I’m being generous with this rating. A film about an unlikeable girl doing shitty things to people with little to no narrative. Wish I’d walked out.

THE ASSASSIN ★★★

The biggest disappointment of the festival for me, though certainly not the worst film. I was really excited to see this, having loved a lot of the martial arts films shown in previous years at MIFF. The cinematography was incredible, gorgeous, and almost worth seeing the film for alone, but unfortunately I couldn’t follow the story, and its slow pace wasn’t enough to keep me there till the end, in part due to my disappointment in the film earlier in the day.