This Might Be Good

A festival is a concentration of hope Audiences hungering for something startingly new famously familiar or just plain good Actors hoping their wellconceived sincerity and ritual entrances have that special glow Press and critics poised to love or hate lucidly And proud desperate filmmakers looking for that little blessing on their latest selfprojection All squeezing together for a few days in a few rooms wondering whether this will truly be the perfect place at the perfect time Of course it rarely is Mostly its just a collection of almosts Delicious shared almosts