Gen Art Film Festival: Night Three

Sebastian Guitierrez' film Electra Luxx had a great dry humor and campy quality to it. I was sure if I was going to like it when it first started, but I began to like it more and more as the movie progressed.
The movie was very well cast. Carla Gugino as the retired porn star was perfect. She is smokin' hot in the movie, and even better looking in person. Her big doe eyes lend her a vulnerability that comes through during the movie. Electra is a very multi-dimensional character. At first look she's a shallow sex symbol, but the more you watch, she becomes much more than that.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a sex blogger, Bert Rodriguez. This guy is super funny, mostly because he's trying to be so serious about his reporting on Electra. The fact that he video blogs from his bedroom in his mother's house makes for some hysterical interruptions to his reports. His sister, the aspiring Internet Pin-up girl, and Trixie the cashier, played by Malin Ackerman (this is her second film being shown at this film festival), add even more interest to his scenes.
The director and writer, Sebastian Gutierrez did a great job with this film. Listening to him discuss his film at the Q&A session after the film showed how passionate he is. I had not heard of the first movie involving these characters, Women In Trouble. After seeing Electra Luxx and hearing Gutierrez talk about the characters and his love of them, I will definitely put it on my list of movies to watch.

This was a fun movie to watch and is definitely something I would recommend it if you like any of the actors involved in the project or if you just like funny, sexy films.

The shirt film paired with this film was a perfect match. Blowing Bubbles was a very short film made for a 24 hour film race. Bubbles is a clown whose act is to, obviously, blow bubbles. But when his love, the Bearded Lady, leaves him he can no longer perform. The fantasticly raunchy twist is his problem performing has less to do with her leaving and more to with what she would for him before he had to perform. Definitely a great, original idea for a film.
Congrats to these film makers for a job well done, and for having their films showcased together in this film festival.

The major highlight of my evening had nothing to do with these two movies. It came after j left the theater and saw, gasp, Zachary Quinto in the lobby! Being the major geek that I am, I wanted to run to him and tell him how much I loved him as Spock. I pretty much chickened out, but luckily my hubby wouldn't let me walk away without for a picture with him. He was very nice about it, although he could have smoked a little for me.






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