Started this morning with a Turkish film called "Three Monkeys", a very bleak film about a family, the terrible deals that they make and the implications of same.
The tone is relentlessly dark, aided by some strong performances by the four main actors and some technically brilliant, if visually dreary, cinematography.
Moving from a Turkish port city (Istanbul?) to the skies of the "European Confederation", I moved into "The Sky Crawlers", a Japanese anime about a team of young, fighter pilots locked in an apparently endless war, a war fought by corporations rather than nations.
The highlight of the film are some beautifully depicted aerial dogfights -- the animation is quite exquisite. Unfortunately, all the attention appears to have been paid to the bacgrounds and machinery. Human characters are rendered in a very uninteresting manner and the plot is formulaic.
Both films seem to have distributors in place.
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