I'm risking missing Acolytes' last screening in order to write this quickly, but I'm stunned that nobody's chimed in yet about how stunning Franck (sic) Vestiel's Eden Log is.

Screening last night for the first time in North America, but having played a bit around the rest of the world during 2008, the think I kept hearing was how slow, cold, and uninvolving it was.  Prepared for the worst, I made sure I was well rested and ready for a slow film.  From the film's first image until  its last, I was completely riveted.  Gorgeous visually and unraveling its mystery at a perfect pace, the film surpassed every single expectation I had for it.  Once the festival's done I'm going to read a bunch of Eden Log reviews and make mental notes about whose reviews I can trust and whose I perhaps no longer can.

Vestiel and his crew have made, on a on a paltry budget for a sci-fi film, one of the best looking films of not only Midnight Madness but TIFF.  Hopefully Eden Log finds its audience when Magnolia/Magnet release it, and I absolutely can't wait until Vestiel's next film.