Canadian director extraordinaire Bruce La Bruce graces TIFF20’s program with his latest schlockfest ‘Saint-Narcisse’. La Bruce takes us back to the 70s, where we meet the 22 year-old narcissist Dominic. Taking Polaroid selfies every opportunity he gets, he constantly turns himself on by looking at his own reflection. When his grandmother dies, he discovers his …
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TIFF20 Review – ‘One Night In Miami…’
Regina King’s feature directing debut with drama ‘One Night in Miami…’, from a screenplay by Kemp Powers based upon his original stage play of the same name, is the crowdpleasing TIFF20 film you should be watching. Blending entertainment and activism, fame and principle, together on one fabled evening to remember. One Night in Miami… imagines a night in …
TIFF20 Review – ‘Holler’
Our second day – and third film – of TIFF20 is reserved for Nicole Riegel’s debut feature ‘Holler’. Riegel, winner of Palm Springs Festival’s “Directors to Watch”-award, channels some serious gritty ‘Winter’s Bone’-vibes, including a promising young lead and a look at a small community living far beneath the poverty line, trying to survive in …
TIFF20 Review – ‘Tove’
Toronto International Film Festival is off to a great start with Zaida Bergroth’s ‘Tove’, a biography on Tove Jansson’s life, showing both her personal relationships and the creation of the popular Moomin books. Helsinki, 1944. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson (Alma Pöysti …