Festival & Game of the Worlds

Oddly twinned masterpieces by one of the greatest fabulists of any age: past, present, or 40,000 years in the future

In Festival, the genius postmodern sci-fi filmmaker Alec Steryx is the star guest of a film festival in an unnamed country. But he’s brought a surprise: his nonagenarian mother. Everyone is baffled: Why? Half-blind and terminally cranky, she does nothing but complain, despite insisting on attending every screening and reception. As Steryx’s mother gums up the works for the fes...