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Set within "Nyallywood", Pompo the Cinephile focuses on the titular producer who is the granddaughter of a famous producer yet finds herself enjoying the development of creating trashy B-movies. Wanting to develop an ambitious drama for her next film, Pompo develops a screenplay for it and has her young assistant, Gene Fini, become the director of it. Being an diehard movie buff determined to make a masterpiece out of the film, Gene commits himself to working on the film, coming to learn of the creative and financial challenges involved in it as the film's development presses on. Pompo the Cinephile largely does a solid job exploring the development of Gene's work to attempt making a successful film out of Pompo's screenplay. Within its 90-plus minute runtime, the film has a reasonable amount of time to flesh out Gene and a few other characters either making their debuts for working in film or being established talent within the realm. Pompo dabbles into some of the processes and challenges that go into the development of film that include directing, editing, meeting timelines, and securing funding for development. Gene is depicted is someone with a lot of creativity and enthusiasm to go into his work for the film, but finds himself creatively challenged by trying to edit together a work that he would be satisfied with albeit within the time constraints of the movie format. An effective narrative element with showing off this challenge is having the events play out at the same time as scenes from his film, Meister, play out onscreen as the creative struggles of the orchestra conductor in the film mirror that of what Gene is experiencing. All this said though, Pompo the Cinephile presents a more idealistic slant of film development and doesn't realistically depict it. This is shown through Pompo's rather young-looking appearance in spite of her fame, Gene not getting into any interpersonal conflicts over problems plaguing film development, and the rather convenient developments that come along to push things with the development of Gene's movie. Those looking for a more believable story to tell with exploring film development may be disappointed with this sort of take on the film industry. But anyone going into this not minding this spin will likely enjoy the energy and enthusiasm of the characters as they help work on Pompo or Gene's films, the former getting rather entertaining at the start of the film with Pompo's filming a campy monster movie with camera shots focusing on the boobs and butt of an actress in a bikini while she gets attacked by said monster. In short, Pompo the Cinephile may not be everyone's cup of tea for its idealist spin on film development with exploring Gene's creative developments of Pompo's latest screenplay. Still, it does have fun showing off the joys and challenges of creatively developing a film project shown through Gene's experiences filming and editing it. If you're just looking to be entertained, Pompo should make for a solid time killer with what it has to offer. Last updated Sunday, September 11 2022. Created Sunday, September 11 2022. | ||||||||
