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Today is the last day of the competition and later tonight we will have to decide the winner for Best Feature Film and Best Short Film for Méliès d’Argent. There is still one more feature film and two short films to consider and then we are done. At the moment I still haven’t made my final decisions, so for the time being it’s anyone’s game as far as I’m concerned. Tomorrow the results will be made public around noon.

Yesterday we saw three movies in total and to my surprise I’m almost feeling a bit hangover this morning. I didn’t drink yesterday, so it must be a symptom of a some sort of movie overdose. I didn’t even think that would be possible, but since we have been watching Star Trek the whole year and kept the movies on a down low, I think my brain is just over heating by this sudden change in pace. Well what ever it is, I’m so happy to be a participating the festival and doing what I love most – watching movies.

The last film on the Méliès d’Argent menu is Outcast. It is an intriguing movie to say the least. In the Espoo Ciné booklet it says: “if Mike Leigh would do a werewolf movie, it would be something along the lines of Outcast”. Before the film there are the last two short films Touch of Red and The Sack.

Outcast

Mother and son live hiding in one of the rougher suburbs of Edinburgh. Someone – or something – is after them, and soon the neighbourhood is shocked by a wave of brutal and untimely deaths. Outcast fuses strong social drama with a werewolf horror plot that draws influence from ancient Irish and Scottish mythology (via espoocine.fi).

I’m now faced with the difficult job of choosing the winners. To be honest I’m not going into the judges table with the calmness of knowing what to do yet. Hopefully tonight will make it clear to me.

Since I’m still keeping my opinions to myself about the competing films, you can read Timo’s review of Vampires right here.

Until tomorrow.

Tags: Espoo Ciné, Espoo Ciné International Film Festival 2010, Méliès d’Argent, Outcast

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