By Anne Brodie Universal Language, Canada’s 2025 Best International Academy Award entry, a TIFF hit, is a hoot! A brilliantly whimsical and highly original outrider taking us into a snowbound world of the surreal and bizarre. Director Matthew Rankin and writers Ila Firouzabadi, Pirouz Nemati and …
This Week, a Brief Look at TIFF Offerings Before the Deluge!!!
By Anne Brodie Canadian author and filmmaker Durga Chew-Bose’s feature film debut, a remake of the 1958 film Bonjour Tristesse based on Françoise Sagan’s novel is extraordinarily seductive. Widower Raymond (Claes Bang) is spending a relaxed summer on the French coast with his daughter …
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Adventures in Entertainment This Week! Monks, Guns, Drag Queens, May-December Support, Shōgun, Vera!
By Anne Brodie The Monk And The Gun by Pawo Choyning Dorji, which was shortlisted as Best International Feature for this year's Oscars is genius - a compelling, exciting story, the opportunity to experience life in a far distant country with a vastly different culture than our own, and the …
Truman Capote’s Swans Fought Back When He Betrayed Them. Buckle up!
The sad story of Truman Capote's ouster as storyteller and entertainer to the wives of Manhattan's most powerful men continues to make waves today. Much ink has been spilled over Capote, in the 80s considered the greatest living American author, who was banned from the magic circle of dinners at La …
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Ambition’s Price, and Being Elsewhere.
By Anne Brodie Writer-director Kaouther Ben Hania's innovative style brings to vivid, unforgettable life Four Daughters, a quasi-documentary about a family of Tunisian women mourning the disappearance of the eldest two daughters who were "devoured by wolves". Ben Hania as the real mother Olfa …
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