TIFF Day 9

The first film was It Might Get Loud, by Davis Guggenheim. This film follows Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), The Edge (U2), and Jack White (The White Stripes) around while finding out about their influences and experiences. Interspersed with the interviews are sequences where the three talk together and jam.

Where do I start? Listening to the three talk about why they started playing music is fascinating. Watching Jack White make a guitar from nails, wire and a coke bottle (in under 5 minutes) is amazing. Seeing Jimmy Page play air guitar to Link Wray's "Rumble" is illuminating. If I had any criticism of the film, I would have to say that the time the three spend together is too short. All in all, a wonderful film.
8.5/10

The last film of the festival (literally) was Chocolate, by Prachya Pinkaew. The film deals with the story of an ex-mob member's autistic daughter, who picks up a subconscious knowledge of martial arts from watching tv and playing video games. When her mother becomes ill, she and a friend track down old debts in order to pay for medicine.

Great fun, the film makes you ache in sympathy for all the people getting their butts kicked by the lead, especially since she is quite a petite woman (5'2'' or so). The set-piece fights have a great energy to them that never flags, even though some of them last over 10 minutes.
7.5/10