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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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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 …
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 …