It’s another regular Toronto International Film Festival, with a sofa and Keurig replacing theater seats and a coffee stop.
In a year when everything in the film industry had to fight amid COVID-19, Toronto (until September 19) is the largest film festival that becomes virtual, with a small list of films for an occasion that is considered one of the biggest kick-offs of the Oscar season. However, you can’t forget its cache, even in a very 2020: the last five winners of the most productive film have all played in Toronto, so this is perhaps the position he throws (at least virtually), for example, Chloe Zhao’s road drama “Nomadland” (with Frances McDormand) or Francis Lee’s lesbian romance “Ammonite” (with Wins Katelet and Saoirse Ronan) in consideration.
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As last year, with much more WiFi involved, we’ll keep readers updated with reactions to all the main videos and hidden gems we see. (And yes, because we like to categorize things, so do we. )
Seeing only the first and fourth part of a six-hour horror/mystery miniseries from HBO is really a bewildering company. What “The Third Day” premiered at the festival before appearing on HBO on September 14 is causing terrifying atmospheres and an island that sounds like the British edition of this local nightmare of “Midsommar. “Sam (Jude Law) saves a suicidal woman and takes her back to her island, where a strange summer festival is taking place, while Helen (Naomie Harris) takes a walk with her daughters has come for reasons other than vacation. With an online theatrical detail also planned, “Third Day” provides at least a decent start to a high-concept scary festival.
Produced through Paul Feig and written and directed through former Marine Nicole Riegel, the dark story of running elegance presents elements of the mystery of crime and drama about the age of majority. Jessica Barden impresses as Ruth, a smart teenager trying to raise enough money. to move to school, and escape his hometown in southern Ohio, joining an abstract team of heists with his older brother (Gus Halper). With their mother (Pamela Adlon) in prison, they borrow steel from factories and factories closed at night. and when the stage becomes dangerous, Ruth will have to weigh a potentially bright long term and stay with her family.
Do you like professional wrestling, strange romances, zombie apocalypse, Three Stooges antics, kung fu movies and just buckets and buckets of blood?Well, throw it all away in a blender and press the “crazy” button on this Taiwanese horror comedy expelled from parliament for its two-fist political style, Hsiung (Megan Lai) needs to prevent a toxic plant from invading his house and recruiting loving security guard Wang (Bruce Ho) to be his man inside. in the government building, turning those who suffer into red-eyed undead, so our heroes have to make their way through a scenario that proudly becomes more and more ridiculous every minute.
Unfortunately, winslet and Ronan’s team of stars as 19th-century lovers is an exuberant task that is difficult to excavate. Written and directed through Lee, the film discovers the famous paleontologist Mary Anning (Winslet) hunting fossils in her southern England city. a remote life until a wealthy guest scientist (James McArdle) leaves his wife Charlotte (Ronan) for Custody of Mary. Although there are differences in elegance and personality, a relationship is formed between the two women and leads to a raw and passionate love story. The slow-burning drama suffers from a clear lack of character development, and there is not enough genuine connection to win hot and heavy things.
The down under melodrama is reserved for this film that, at the very least, will immerse you completely and emotionally in a magpie. Naomi Watts plays australian athletic mother Sam, who falls off a roof and is paralyzed from her chest after a back fracture. His return from a depressive state begins when one of his 3 children selects a wounded bird. Named Penguin, the new feathered friend of relatives seduces the total circle of relatives (including Andrew Lincoln as a beloved father). Sam plays a key role in bird care, and Penguin and Sam embark on a non-unusual adventure of resuming their flight in their own way.
Think of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” with characters from comedian e-books and you’ll get this immersive biographical film about Finnish artist Tove Jansson (Alma P-itsti). At the end of World War II in Helsinki, Tove, satisfied with the dance, works to become a painter and has an affair with a married politician (Shanti Roney), but falls in love with well-to-do theatre director Vivica Bandler (Krista Kosonen). fleeting in the following years, while the artist’s aspect assignment “The Moomins” – encouraged through the cartoons she drew for young people in the bunkers of wars – has become a success abroad.
The documentary follows prominent regueton singer J Balvin as he returns to his country of Colombia for an individual exhibition at a stadium, and explores an artist in the most sensitive of global suffering with his intellectual health. Balvin, who counts President Barack Obama as a fan, comes to life upon his arrival in Medellin, where other people take selfies with him in the gym (“I want my city, I want to feel his energy”), but he is also debating to talk and what to say. as marches, demonstrations and movements opposed to the country’s right-wing government erupts. Balvin, however, speaks very honestly about his crippling depression and anxiety: “It’s a real hell. It’s a concern of concern. “
The first feature film through the Greek director Christos Nikou is an allegorical drama with a timely inclination. During a global pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, aris (Aris Servetalis) wakes up on a bus not knowing who he is. Enter a strange “New Identity” program that puts you through various demanding situations – go to a strip club, wreck a car – so Aris can create new moments of life and take a Polaroid to capture them. Meet a woman (Sofia Georgovassili) who is also in “recovery”, the fact of Aris’s beyond is gradually revealed in a considered account of self-discoveration and selective memory.
Spike Lee masterfully directs this filmed edition of former Talking Heads singer’s Broadway show, a summary and a joyful hymn to empathy, love and human bond supported by a multicultural band of instrumentalists and dancers dressed in their signature look (grey suit, bare feet). Byrne plays new wave melodies, funky improvisations and even a protest song through Janelle Monae, provides a science lesson about Brian Eno’s brain and names before throwing himself into a number “using nonsense to make sense of a global that makes no sense. “It’s an hour and forty-five minutes of well-being that shows 68-year-old Byrne with the voice and physical prowess of a yoga teacher.
You can’t throw a ball without hitting a new political documentary in those days, yet the new film about former White House photographer Pete Souza, who took stunning and heartfelt photographs of former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, is one of the most moving. While looking at a surprising wallet, the film also approaches Souza as an accidental social media star who earned the nickname “King of Shadows” when he began posting on Instagram his obama photos to trick President Trump’s tweets. “It’s a serious task as president. ” Souza says in the document, “I’m going to do what I can to make sure other people do. “
Zhao’s drama focuses on baby boomers who took to the road to lead an unconventional life in vans and motorhomes after the Great Recession of the 2000s. Becoming a quiet but splendid performance, McDormand plays Fern, a 61-year-old woman who, after her husband’s death. death and his Nevada that the city emptied, now goes where the task is, whether it’s an Amazon Fulfillment Center in Nebraska or a catering concert at Wall Pharmacy in South Dakota, and bureaucracy, a cell circle of relatives with other nomads. taking care of others and giving recommendations on stealth parking, as well as the most productive buckets to serve as portable toilets, and as well as depicting other genuine people embracing this existence, Zhao’s film radiates authenticity.
Vanessa Kirvia and Shia LaBeouf produced the most productive performances of her careers, and Kirvia considers he he himself an Oscar nominee in good faith, in hungarian director Kornél Mundrucz’s poignant family circle drama. and Shawn (LaBeouf), it becomes tragic, perhaps through the hands of the midlinst (Molly Parker), and in the months that followed, when a case of criminals was resolved in front of her, the grieving husband and wife separate: she isolates herself from her Kirvia is a revelation in a moving role and Mundrucz magnificently creates a series of heartbreaking births and a brutal circle of family reunion between Martha and her mother (played through a wonderful Ellen Burstyn.
Regina King’s first feature film is just one of the most productive films of the year. “One Night”, Kemp Powers’ adaptation of his work, imagine the conversations of 4 black icons (and friends): boxer Cassius Clay (Eli Goree), soccer superstar Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), rights activist civilians Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir) and soul singer Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr. ) – the night Clay 22 won the heavyweight name in 1964, the acting is exceptional in all areas, and the greatest King’s achievement is showing the greatest: that life is fully human, talking, laughing and arguing about race, religion, strength and his own insecurities.
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