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Mushrooms (Chatrak): Cannes 2011 Review

6:55 AM PDT 5/19/2011 by Kirk Honeycutt

Sri Lanka-born director Vimukthi Jayasundara's film is shot in dirty colors and dim enough lights that would make anyone depressed, in the movie or watching it.

CANNES -- Complaints are everywhere that programmers for the Quinzaine des Rèalisateurs or Directors’ Fortnight at the 2011 Festival de Cannes are almost entirely favoring movies with scant narrative, choosing instead “poetic” visual essays. Certainly Mushrooms (Chatrak) from Sri Lanka-born director Vimukthi Jayasundara underscores that complaint. Yet there is about as much visual poetry in Mushrooms as there is plot. It’s hard to see who will ever appreciate this French-Indian co-production other than overindulgent festival programmers and film critics.

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