Sundance 2010 Preview: OBSELIDIA

Films about strange people falling in love is kind of a staple for any, decent film festival.   Leave it to Sundance to pick the best of the best in this subgenre.   With OBSELIDIA, it seems they may have found a film that will end up being as endearing as it is eccentric.   From first-time write/director Diane Bell and starring a group of young, up and coming stars, OBSELIDIA looks like a film that is sure not to be missed for anyone who like a little quirk with their romance.

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Official synopsis:

Believing he’s the last door-to-door encyclopedia salesman in the world, George decides to write The Obselidia, a compendium of obsolete things. George believes that love, among other things, is obsolete. In his quest to document nearly extinct occupations, he befriends Sophie, a beautiful cinema projectionist who works at a silent movie theatre. Sophie believes that nothing is obsolete as long as someone loves it. When they interview a reclusive scientist who predicts that 80 percent of the world’s population will be obliterated by irreversible climate change by the year 2100, the two must face the question, if the world is going to disappear tomorrow, how are we going to live today?

Diane Bell’s soft-spoken, profound, and disarmingly charming debut feature engages these fateful issues of our time with a warm, sparkling sense of beauty, sincerity, and compassion. Obselidia offers a rare and humane lens through which we can view a world increasingly preoccupied with and inhabited by extinction.

OBSELIDIA is playing at the following times:

2:15 PM Fri, Jan 22 Racquet club
12:00 PM Sat, Jan 23 Broadway Centre Cinema VI in Salt Lake City
12:15 PM Tue, Jan 26 Eccles Theatre
5:30 PM Wed, Jan 27 Prospector Square Theatre
12:00 PM Fri, Jan 29 Egyptian Theatre

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