And in the end...

Too wiped out to go through pictures to post, so here's just one, from the end of the last night of the festival:



Kind of a concrete realization of an abstraction of the icon for the festival's 10th anniversary sort of thing. But not really.

Edit: Just to add that to website for one of my favorite films in the fest is here, for a film called Shotgun Stories, directed by Jeff Nichols. The trailer's a little misleading, sorta. The stills and the music that plays on the site give you a better feel for the film, I think.

Interview with the director here, for those who are interested.

There's an old saw that Ebert mentions from time to time in his reviews, something along the lines that it is impossible to make a movie about violence without glorifying violence (attributed to who? Truffaut?) Usually, he brings it out to point to films that buck this rule. Shotgun Stories is one of those. Very slow build to a very powerful and moving final shot, all done without bombast, but with subtlety, gentle humor and straight-faced tragedy. Something like that.