I loved many of the films I saw at this year’s Telluride Film Festival. One of them was Ritesh Batra’s THE LUNCHBOX. It is his feature debut. While I was in Colorado I got to participate in The Wrap’s Shortfest jury. Every film was excellent. Truly. It was a well curated bunch. The jury was pretty swell too: passionate, opinionated, and committed. They were all true film lovers. Quickly though, Ritesh’s short became evident that it was the winner. It is often said the hardest thing to do is film two people at a table talking. If that is so, it’s easy to see from the short why he’d go on to win prizes at Cannes and elsewhere for his first feature.
Café Regular, Cairo from Ritesh Batra on Vimeo.
