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Slumdog at AFF
Director Danny Boyle got a standing ovation Friday night from a full-house at the Paramount Theatre after the premiere of “Slumdog Millionaire” during the Austin Film Festival.
Standing ovations at festivals, of course, aren’t all that rare. But this one was actually deserved.
“Slumdog” could probably become the sleeper hit of the fall movie lineup. It includes charming performances by children (in flashbacks) as a young man tells how he came to know the answers to questions while being a contestant on India’s “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.”
The details of his life as a child are amazing: murders, unfathomable brutality, blindings… To say more would be to give away too much. Let’s just say that the story is at once heartbreaking and uplifting.
At a question-and-answer session after the screening, Boyle said he enjoyed working with child actors because their performances are affected or full or mannerisms. Instead, they’re like “natural spring water.”
(photo: Chris Garcia)
Afterward, Boyle loitered in the Paramount lobby, chatting up fans, signing autographs and posing for photos.
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