Cineppets: "Nunsense"

LAPSUS
Juan Pablo Zaramella, dir; Argentina, 2007; 3:30 mins
RIIFF, August 5 - 10 2008

Once again, festival season is upon us - our office on the second floor of the Columbus Theater has been buzzing with activity as we crank into high gear for our upcoming film festival. I plan to do a series of blog posts on upcoming films at the fest which I've particularly enjoyed and think you should check out this August. LAPSUS is by the same director who created the clever animation VOYAGE TO MARS, which we had as an Opening Night film at RIIFF06. Unfortunately our former tech crew - who always seemed more interesting in sampling product from our liquor sponsors than paying attention to running the show - forgot to check and see that they had the subtitled version of the film. They didn't and we ended up having to screen VOYAGE in Spanish. Luckily, it was a film that needed few words to convey an endearing story of exploration and discovery. LAPSUS is a film with similar themes: a curious nun ventures from light to dark in a humorous series of disembodied skits. I showed it to our interns, who thought it was a little weird - I doubt any of them attended Catholic school.