Wouldn’t it be great if fans dressed up for the indie and foreign films at the Wisconsin Film Festival the way the way “Star Wars” fans dressed up?
Guys with shaved heads and long robes would wait in line for the austere monk documentary “Into Great Silence,” or wear dirty hip waders for the clam diggers comedy-drama “Diggers,” or soccer uniforms for “Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait.”
It won’t happen, most likely, and the only people to come out in costume at this year’s festival were, of course, “Star Wars” fans. There was a Darth Vader and about a half-dozen Stormtroopers in the audience Thursday night at the Wisconsin Union Theater for “Heart of an Empire,” a moving documentary about some big-hearted fans.