#Cinequest Film Festival day six
Film #14: “How To Lose Jobs & Alienate Girlfriends” is an unusual documentary. It is ostensibly about the careers of two musicians. One is the boss and mentor of the film maker. The other is his girlfriend. In reality it is about the film maker’s relationship to those individuals and his desire to attain his goal of creating a movie seen by someone other than himself. Surprisingly the movie is better than that description suggests. I rate it 3 of 5 stars.
Film #15: “One Day In April” is a documentary about the “Little 500” bicycle race. The 1979 fictional movie about that race, “Breaking Away” is a classic and superior to this documentary. I loved the 1979 movie and wanted to like this one. Unfortunately this documentary has too many flaws. Starting with the fact that it doesn’t explain what “Little 500” means or the backstory for the team known as the “Cutters”. It gives all of twenty seconds to mentioning that woman were allowed to compete for the first time in 1988, thirty-seven years after the race was founded. The ending drags on for five+ minutes with irrelevant footage of the home life of one of the coaches and the 2014 race (the film focuses on the 2013 race). The film tries mightily to personalize the college age contestants but is only partially successful. I rate it only 2 of 5 stars.