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The film festival that’s been going on for the past couple of weeks has ended, and I only wish I could’ve seen more of the films. We had to line up for about an hour to see each movie, and the Q & A sessions with producers or directors afterwards ran an additional (but well worth it) half hour or so. Also, the time slots were not in the evenings like normal movies. My husband actually took time off work so we could catch one of the films!

Grizzly Man, directed by Werner Herzog, is one film that made a lasting impression, despite some flaws. All the video was filmed by Timothy Treadwell who lived among grizzlies in Alaska for 13 summers. Tragically, he and his girlfriend were killed by one of them (this is not part of the movie, thank goodness). It’s not his doomed destiny or the footage of the bears that’s so riveting, though—it’s the manic, colorful Treadwell himself. He is one bizarre character. But there’s something in his story—a searching for meaning in life maybe—that seems quite universal. See this one if you get the chance.

--Melanie