Snakehead, 2021. Written and directed by Evan Jackson Leong. Starring Shuya Chang, Jade Wu, Sung Kang, Perry Yung, Yacine Djoumbaye, and Devon Diep. SYNOPSIS: A Chinese immigrant gets caught up in an international crime ring of human smuggling while attempting to make a better life for her family. Documentarian-turned-narrative filmmaker Evan Jackson Leong (Linsanity) has […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – The Other Tom
The Other Tom, 2021. Written and directed by Rodrigo Plá and Laura Santullo. Starring Julia Chávez and Israel Rodríguez Bertorelli. SYNOPSIS: A mother risks losing custody of her son when she refuses to continue medicating his ADHD, after an accident alerts her to the drugs’ side-effects. Regular collaborating filmmakers Rodrigo Plá and Laura Santullo team […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – Ali & Ava
Ali & Ava, 2021. Written and directed by Clio Barnard. Starring Claire Rushbrook and Adeel Akhtar. SYNOPSIS: Ali and Ava, both lonely for different reasons, meet and sparks fly. Over a lunar month a deep connection begins to grow, despite the legacy of Ava’s past relationship and Ali’s emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – France
France, 2021. Written and directed by Bruno Dumont. Starring Léa Seydoux, Benjamin Biolay, and Blanche Gardin. SYNOPSIS: A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident. It’s tough to consider what broader audiences will make of Bruno Dumont’s latest effort, a tri-pronged satire of sensationalist […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – The Survivor
The Survivor, 2021. Directed by Barry Levinson. Starring Ben Foster, Vicky Krieps, Billy Magnussen, Peter Sarsgaard, John Leguizamo, Danny DeVito, Dar Zuzovsky, and Saro Emirze. SYNOPSIS: Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – Zalava
Zalava, 2021. Co-written and directed by Arsalan Amiri. Starring Navid Pourfaraj, Pouria Rahimi Sam, Hoda Zeinolabedin, Baset Rezaei, Fereydoun Hamedi, and Shaho Rostami. SYNOPSIS: Investigating reports of demonic possessions in a remote village, a skeptical military officer finds his beliefs tested by an enigmatic exorcist. Exorcism movies are a dime-a-dozen, and so this new riff […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – Charlotte
Charlotte, 2021. Directed by Eric Warin and Tahir Rana. Starring Keira Knightley, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent, Sam Claflin, Henry Czerny, Eddie Marsan, Helen McCrory, Sophie Okonedo, and Mark Strong. SYNOPSIS: An account of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon living in the south of France between 1941 and 1943. Tacky thought it might seem to decry the […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – You Are Not My Mother
You Are Not My Mother, 2021. Written and directed by Kate Dolan. Starring Hazel Doupe, Paul Reid, Carolyn Bracken, and Ingrid Craige. SYNOPSIS: In a North Dublin housing estate, Char’s mother goes missing. When she returns, Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family. Writer-director […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – The Mad Women’s Ball
The Mad Women’s Ball, 2021. Co-written and directed by Mélanie Laurent. Starring Mélanie Laurent, Lou de Laâge, Emmanuelle Bercot, Benjamin Voisin, Cédric Khan, and Grégoire Bonnet. SYNOPSIS: A woman who is unfairly institutionalised in a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel “Le bal des […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – Burning
Burning, 2021. Directed by Eva Orner. SYNOPSIS: Follows the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as the “Black Summer.” Burning is an exploration of what happened as told from the perspective of victims of the fires, activists, and scientists. One of the year’s most unnerving horror films hasn’t got a single ghost or masked killer […]
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