Duration: June 16-26 City: Los Angeles Country: USA Edition: 11th/2005 Venues: DGA, ArcLight, Laemmle Sunset 5 Official Site: LA Film Fest Other Years: LA Film Fest

Plume Noire was at the Los Angeles Film Festival to bring you exclusive film reviews, direct from the Sunset Strip.

As usual, the Los Angeles Film Festival was rich in the variety of events and films presented and appeals to both facets of the city's identity: its multi-ethnic soul and its edgy rock and cinephile vibe.

2046 A nostalgic and stylized work, worked by time, 2046 subscribes to the aesthetic and thematic continuity of In the Mood for Love, its twin film.

4 There are a few films, which after seeing them, you are not sure if you loved them or hated them.

Broken Flowers Jim Jarmusch has fun and his pleasure is contagious. An eccentric comedy, Broken Flowers throws a seductive 50-something on the road after he learns of his paternity via a letter.

Last Days Icon or cliché? Kurt Cobain or not? Gus Van Sant takes on the myth of Kurt Cobain.

Maid In America There are over 100,000 domestic workers in Los Angeles, women who leave their families behind in Central America and Mexico in order to take care of other people's children and homes here in southern California.

Me and You and Everyone We Know At the heart of Me You and Everyone We Know lies the search for permanence in a society and culture in which everything is readily disposable.

Nearing Grace While I must admit being very skeptic watching the opening scene of Nearing Grace, the film then unfolds nicely, with good acting, an acute sense of humor, light tones of poetry, and most of all a great sense of cuteness.

New York Doll Marking music history as the band that made the transition between glam and punk, the New York Dolls remain, to this day, one of these cult acts that fully incarnate the debauchery and provocative imagery of Rock.

Night Watch Those who think Russian cinema is synonymous for slow, naturalistic and cerebral films might be proven wrong with Night Watch, a fantastic piece of mumbo jumbo.

November A dramatic study of the consequences of a trauma on the human brain, Greg Harrison's November is an experimental work that transposes onscreen the various facets of a fractal memory, both visually and narratively.

Romántico Director Mark Becker first became interested in the groups of immigrant single men living together in San Francisco who arrive to work, leaving their families behind.

Southbounders An indie feature shot on DV on a shoestring budget, Southbounders follows Olivia a young woman who decides to take a break to venture on the Appalachian Trail.

Stolen There is something fascinating about the world of art thieves and the underground market for stolen art.

Townes Van Zandt - Be Here to Love Me A mythic figure from the folk/country scene, Townes Van Zandt spent most of his life fighting his demons — alcohol, drugs and everything he could ingurgitate.