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 …
Thursday TIFF UPDATE: A Difficult Year, Jenn and Reese Together Again, a Gripping New Hulu Series and The Toronto International Film Festival 23!
By Anne Brodie A Difficult Year from writer-directors Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano takes a comedic tongue-in-cheek look at two middle-aged guys, Bruno (Pio Marmaï) and Albert (JonathanCohen) both in dire financial straits when we meet them. A Difficult Year is a comedy about poverty that …
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 …
Entertainment, Thy Name is Variety. This Week Offers Something for Every Mood, and Stars, Has-Beens and Personalities!
By Anne Brodie Writer-director Ruben Östlund is back in his favourite place – the hotel. Bedrooms, dining rooms, common thoroughfares with balustrades, and a vibe of impermanence and mild dread as he looks through keyholes at couples not quite in tune. They struggle with the politics of their …
Guy Maddin’s 1988 Classic Tales from the Gimli Hospital Is Restored and Ready for a New Generation
Winnipeg filmmaker, author, and professor Guy Maddin's audacious 1988 horror/erotic/comedy-drama Tales From the Gimli Hospital begins a new life with a 4K restoration, 34 years after its initial release. Maddin's signature silent and early film sound styles were set here in his first feature; Gimli …