By Anne Brodie – Toronto’s prestigious Hot Docs International Festival screens in cinemas across Toronto and streams nationwide today through May 8. Check out https://hotdocs.ca/whats-on/hot-docsfor what to expect from factual fare from Canada and around the world. Canadian documentary filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal became the first director to open Hot Docs twice, this time with Into the Weeds, taking chemical manufacturers… View Post
By Anne Brodie Welsh actor Griff Rhys Jones isn’t content to be one of the UK’s leading TV actors. He decided his life would never be fully lived until he’d seen Canada in detail. His BBC series Griff’s Canadian Adventure is now available in Canada for our viewing pleasure. Rhys Jones does it all – cuts cod tongues with Alan… View Post
I Love America stars, Sophie Marceau, as Lise who flees Paris for Los Angeles after losing her husband and mother and leans on Luka, played by Djanis Bouzyani, her gay best friend and drag bar owner. He secretly puts her on a dating app and she goes along, meeting some duds, until John, a much younger man played by Colin… View Post
French supermodel and actor Sophie Marceau plays Lise, a divorcee who abandons her hometown of Paris for a new life in Los Angeles after losing her mother. They had a complicated relationship but now she feels free to move on and re-experience life, dating, and find peace. It’s the true story of writer-director Lisa Azuelos. What She Said’ Anne Brodie… View Post
Charlotte is a gorgeously rendered animated documentary on Charlotte Saloman. She was a young Jewish girl growing up in Berlin and studying art when Hitler’s Nazification program. Charlotte and her surviving family members escaped to the south of France where she painted all her memories of family, love, and life, the Holocaust, and the growing threat in occupied France. …. View Post
By Anne Brodie – Charlotte a powerful animated Canadian film, with an impressive international cast presents the saga of German Jewish painter Charlotte Saloman. Charlotte’s family was well off in Berlin in the years leading up to the German Nazification. Her gift for painting was clear early, her style, modern, edgy, and highly personal. Among her first works, a girl… View Post