By Anne Brodie Here, Robert Zemeckis’ history of a place over its lifetime of millions of years, ice ages, extinctions, renewal, and modern times takes an unusual approach to storytelling. A home sprouts up in the last century where primordial ooze had been and where meteorites had crashed, and …
A Nordic “Romance”, Karen Kain, Shetland S8, Res Kids, Girls Gone Wild -1890 – Walk Across Namibia and Is It Cake?!
By Anne Brodie Aki Kaurismäki's Fallen Leaves reflects on life's quiet offside moments as two characters fallen on hard times find each other. A grocery cashier and a labourer working in Helsinki, Finland had bigger dreams for themselves, but living in squalor on tiny incomes has punctured those …
Saturday UPDATE as TIFF Continues!
A radical feminist story is revealed in Widow Clicquot which took place in the early 1880s in the fertile Champagne region of France. Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, played with authority by Haley Bennett is married to François (Tom Sturridge) who owns a failing Champagne vineyard and suddenly dies …
Is Love at First Sight Even Possible Without Being Cheesy? Jennifer E. Smith and Vanessa Caswill Trash the Stereotype.
Jennifer E. Smith's book The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight is the basis for Vanessa Caswill's Netflix's sweet and salty adaptation Love at First Sight, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Ben Hardy. They are Hadley, an American off to London for her father's second wedding. She meets …
Immigrant and LGBTQ2 Stories, Rock Hudson’s Not So Secret Secret, How to Dress to Save the Planet … and Idris Elba!
By Anne Brodie Lina Rodriguez' meditative, determinedly slow-paced TIFF entry, the immigration story So Much Tenderness follows a Colombian environmental lawyer Aurora (Noëlle Schönwald) under death threats who flees to Canada. She witnessed the murder of her husband, also an activist, and …