The Filmotsav 2013 is receiving a great response from the movie lovers of the city. On the third day of the film festival three movies were screened back-to-back at the auditorium. Hollywood movies ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’, ‘All About My Mother’ and ‘The Reader’ were screened here on Sunday.
Women oriented films of all genres are being screened in the festival. Interestingly movies from Bollywood and Hollywood will be screened during ten day long festival.
The third day began with the screening of the movie ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’. The movie deals with the autobiography of a noted country music singer of eighties loretta lynn, directed by Michael Apted. Starring Sissy Spacek as loretta lynn, movie won her the Academy Award for the Best Actress category.
The movie narrates the story of a girl whose father is a coal miner having the running time of 124 minutes. She gets married at the age of 15 and becomes grandmother at the age of 29. She then began singing at small house functions and sometimes made guest appearances on radio. The whole movie focuses on how success became a part of her life after facing many hardships and struggles.
At the second half of the day, another Hollywood movie ‘All about my mother’ was screened. Directed by Pedro Almodovar, starring, Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penelope Cruz and Candela Peria with the running time of 102 minutes. Released in the year 1999, ‘All about my mother’ is Spanish-French drama-comedy movie revolving around a young girl who is in search of her mother. Further, the movie also focuses on the issues like AIDS, homosexuality, faith and existentialism.
The last movie of the third day was ‘The Reader’. Starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes and directed by Stephen Daldri, the movie was released in the year 2008 having the running time of 94 minutes. It also won the Academy Award under the category of Best Picture of the Year. The story is about a German lawyer Bernhard Shelling and his struggles.