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#TIFF16: “JULIETA”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
Wunderkind auteur, Spanish Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodovar returns to TIFF ’16 with JULIETA, a melodramatic female-centric Film that focuses on guilt and grief. Adapted from short stories written by Nobel prize winner, Alice Munro, the Movie opens in Madrid with Julieta (Emma Suarez) about to move to Portugal with her lover until a chance meeting with her estranged daughter’s best friend. Abandoning her plans, she stays behind in Madrid and starts to write a Memoir trying to figure out why her daughter no longer wants anything to do with her, which Almodovar presents via a series of flashbacks with Adriana Ugarte playing the younger Julieta.
Much like legendary Hollywood Director George Cukor, Almodovar excels in bringing-out outstanding performances by actresses and JULIETA is no exception. The two ladies playing the title character, as well as Rossy de Palma in a supporting role as a housekeeper that channels the character Mrs. Danvers in the Hitchcock classic Rebecca, are compelling and keeps the interest in this Movie throughout. What the Movie lacks is focus and subtlety. The story and musical score is so melodramatic and off-putting that it borders on a parody, cliché-ridden Ross Hunter production. I miss the Almodovar Movies of the past – they were audacious, salacious and bodacious.
JULIETA screens at TIFF:
Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 6:00 PM VISA SCREENING ROOM
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 12:15 PM TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX 2
#TIFF16: “AMERICAN HONEY”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
It wouldn’t be TIFF if it weren’t divisive, right? Andrea Arnold’s American Honey should play well to the Arthouse-craving Festival crowd, although we’re unsure how the mainstream might perceive it.
American Honey starts off by introducing us to our main character Star (Sasha Lane) and how fed-up she is with the daily grind. Whether that be her abusive and less than caring boyfriend or it be her sister’s children that she took upon herself to watch, there are things that she just wants to escape. Fast-forward a few days where Star, her niece and nephew are searching for food inside the local K-Mart and she meets Jake (Shia LaBeouf). Jake teases Star by trying to get her to join his band of misfits who sell magazines across the country. Star sees this as an opportunity to create a name for herself and she decidedly goes for it.
Both Lane and LaBeouf give incredible performances here. American Honey‘s main flaw is that the Movie itself never really gives enough insight to why Star continues down her path in order to keep us invested at two hours and forty-five minutes.
AMERICAN HONEY screens at TIFF Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 5:15 PM at Ryerson Theatre and again on Monday, September 12, 2016 at 9 PM at Scotiabank Theatre.
#TIFF16: “WINDOW HORSES”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
Growing up, National Film Board Animated Shorts like The Cat Came Back and Log Driver’s Waltz helped define what it meant to be Canadian. They represented a support of the arts and a style of animation that were unique and unlike anything produced elsewhere at the time. Ann Marie Fleming’s Movie Window Horses (The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming) is a nostalgic return to those halcyon days at the NFB.
Rosie (Sandra Oh) was raised by her grandparents after her mother died and her father disappeared. Her self-published book of poetry My eye Full, has brought her to the attention of a poetry festival in Shiraz, Iran where she has been invited to share her work. Despite fearing rejection by her peers, Rosie flies to the home of her absentee father and immerses herself in Persian culture. At the festival she meets Dietmar (Don McKellar) a German hipster, Mehrnaz (the sublime Shohreh Aghdashloo) an Iranian professor, and DiDi (Jun Zhu) an exiled Chinese poet. Through them Rosie finds her voice and learns what it means to be a Poet.
The Movie works best when the animation is punctuating the poetry rather than chasing stories about Rosie’s father. In one particular scene early in the Movie, Rosie listens to the muezzins call out the morning prayer and sees rainbows stream from the top of the minarets around her. As someone who lived briefly in the Middle East, the images struck me as particularly beautiful expressing perfectly my own feelings about those first moments at dawn.
In a year punctuated by excellent Animated Movies, Window Horses stands apart thanks to its unique cross-cultural story. The poetry of animation and words will stay with audiences long after the Festival.
Window Horses screens:
Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM Isabel Bader Theatre
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 4:45 PM Scotiabank Theatre
#TIFF16: “MOONLIGHT”
Review by Siobhán Rich for Mr. Will Wong
We are rarely the same people as children that we are as teenagers or adults. Outside forces like time, family, and even social status shape our world views and mold our characters. In writer/director Barry Jenkin’s brilliant new Film, Moonlight, we witness how seemingly small actions and insights change one boy’s life at childhood, adolescence, and finally adulthood.
When Juan (Mahershala Ali) first happens upon 9-year-old Little (Alex R. Hibbert), he has just escaped bullies who chased him into an abandoned apartment. The silent Little is reticent to share his name let alone the truth about his crackhead mother Paula (Naomie Harris). In this world where everyone is bigger than he is, Little’s only friend is Kevin (Jaden Piner).
At age 16 Kevin (Jharrel Jerome) is still Chiron’s (Ashton Sanders) only friend. Efforts to push aside his childhood nickname are met with derision as his sexuality is challenged daily by the same bullies he once ran from. With his mentor Juan dead, Chiron has no one to guide him when the pressures of life finally come to a head.
During the Final Act we meet a very different man. Having faced tough consequences from his actions as a teenager, Black (Trevante Rhodes) is now a drug dealer in Atlanta, Georgia. Out of the blue Kevin (André Holland) reaches out to him and the two attempt to bridge the distance that time and life experiences have wedged between them.
The true brilliance of Moonlight is its casting. Each actor brings something new to the character while still maintaining the same heart. Black is still as uncomfortable with words as Little was and as wary of betrayal as Chiron. Yet despite the similarities, Rhodes adds new nuances to the role making it his own.
Based on the play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Moonlight is a painfully beautiful modern tragedy. A frontrunner to win the TIFF ’16 Platform competition, no one will leave the theatre unmoved by this Film.
Moonlight screens at TIFF:
Saturday, September 10, 2016 8:30 p.m. Winter Garden
Sunday, September 11, 2016 9:00 a.m. TBLB1
Saturday, September 17, 2016 3:15 p.m. TBLB1
#TIFF16: “PERSONAL SHOPPER”
Auteur and Festival favourite Olivier Assayas returns with his latest, Personal Shopper, an eclectic mixture of the supernatural, a Thriller and heartfelt Drama. Reuniting with numerous members of the cast from Clouds of Sils Maria, this is truly unlike anything we’ve ever seen.
Front and center in a phenomenal performance is Kristen Stewart as Maureen, whose fraternal twin dies suddenly in Paris. Her brother we learn like she, was a medium and she becomes obsessed with any confirmation from him that there is an afterlife. She finds herself in Paris seeking answers, but takes a job with a demanding celebrity (Nora von Waldstätten) as her personal assistant, which keeps diverting her from her mission.
Mysteriously, she begins receiving text messages which could lead her to danger. The question is, we never are certain if these are the doing of a ghost, someone with malicious intent or within her own mind.
Stewart captures perfectly a complex range of emotions in Maureen as she at once grieves, hungers for answers, grappling with frustration and also fearing for her own life.
Personal Shopper screens at TIFF:
Saturday, September 10, 2016 9:00 PM at Scotiabank Theatre 1
Sunday, September 18, 2016 6:30 PM at Scotiabank Theatre 1
#TIFF16: DAY 3 SIGHTINGS – ROONEY MARA, OLIVER STONE, ZACHARY QUINTO, LIEV SCHREIBER, NAOMI WATTS, ELISABETH MOSS, MAHERSHALA ALI + MORE
TIFF ’16 officially is in high flight and we aren’t stopping! Around tonight will be the likes of Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp (daughter of Johnny) walking the Red Carpet for PLANETARIUM at Roy Thomson Hall. Down the road also will be real-life couple Naomi Watts and Liam Schreiber walking the Carpet at Princess of Wales Theatre for their Film, THE BLEEDER, set in the Boxing world. French Cinema also was front and center tonight at the annual UniFrance TIFF Bash as heavyweights including the likes of icons Isabelle Huppert and Paul Verhoeven came out to to celebrate. Tonight also is the biggest bash in the City, the In Style Magazine Party put-on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and it never is a disappointment!
See some of the names we saw out and about today, but stay tuned throughout the day for more sightings!
Liev Schreiber, THE BLEEDER
Liev. #RayDonovan #LievSchreiber #TheBleeder #TIFF16
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Naomi Watts, THE BLEEDER
Rooney Mara, UNA + LION
Goddess #RooneyMara at #TIFF16 with #Una + #Lion.
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Dev Patel, LION
#DevPatel at #TIFF16 with #LionMovie.
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Elisabeth Moss, THE BLEEDER
#MadMen’s #ElisabethMoss at #TIFF16 for #TheBleeder.
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Oliver Stone, SNOWDEN
Oliver. #TIFF16 #OliverStone #Snowden #NikonD3300
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With #OliverStone. #Snowden #TIFF16
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Zachary Quinto, SNOWDEN
#ZacharyQuinto at #TIFF16 for #Snowden.
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Mahershala Ali, MOONLIGHT
#HouseofCards star #MahershalaAli at #TIFF16 with #MOONLIGHT.
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Bingbing Fan, I AM NOT MADAME BOVARY
Selfie with China’s highest paid actress, #FanBingBing, at #TIFF16 with #IAmMadameBovary.
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Joel Edgerton, LOVING
Ruth Negga, LOVING
Ricky Whittle out enjoying TIFF
Kathryn Hahn out enjoying TIFF
#BadMoms star #KathrynHahn at #TIFF16.
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Haley Bennett, The Magnificent Seven
Aaron Taylor Johnson, NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
#AaronTaylorJohnson at #TIFF16 for #NocturnalAnimals.
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Michael Shannon, NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
#MichaelShannon at #TIFF16 with #NocturnalAnimals. Love the Hawaiian theme.
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Uzo Aduba, AMERICAN PASTORAL
Colman Domingo, THE BIRTH OF A NATION
#ColmanDomingo at #TIFF16 with #TheBirthofaNation.
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Nate Parker, THE BIRTH OF A NATION
Tom Felton, A UNITED KINGDOM
#TomFelton at #TIFF16 for #AUnitedKingdom.
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Nicole Kidman, LION
Pharrell, HIDDEN FIGURES
Octavia Spencer, HIDDEN FIGURES
Taraji P. Henson, HIDDEN FIGURES
It’s COOKIE TIME, B*TCHES! Worst selfie ever but happy as hell I met #TarajiPHenson. #Empire #TIFF16
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Sasha Lane, AMERICAN HONEY
Timothy Spall, DENIAL
With #JeffreyTambor at #TIFF16 with #Transparent.
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Ewan McGregor, AMERICAN PASTORAL
Jeffrey Tambor, TRANSPARENT
With #JeffreyTambor at #TIFF16 with #Transparent.
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Isabelle Huppert + Paul Verhoeven
Jean-Paul Salomé, Isabelle Huppert + Piers Handling
Jean-Paul Salomé, Isabelle Huppert + Piers Handling have a moment at Unifrance #TIFF16 Bash.
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Olivier Assayas + Isabelle Huppert
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Karolina Gruszka, MARIE CURRIE, THE COURAGE OF KNOWLEDGE
#KarolinaGruszka, star of #MarieCurrie Biopic #CourageofKnowledge at Unifrance Bash. #TIFF16
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Kristian Bruun (3-WAY)
#OrphanBlack star #KristianBruun at the Unifrance #TIFF16 Bash.
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Amanda Brugel
“Room” star #AmandaBrugel at the Unifrance Bash. #TIFF16
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#TIFF16: “TRESPASS AGAINST US”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
From director Adam Smith comes a complicated Family Drama, Trespass Against Us which begs the question to what lengths we will go to for our family. What makes this TIFF ’16 selection stand out are the lead performances from Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson.
The story focuses on the dynamic between Chad (Michael Fassbender) and Colby (Brendan Gleeson) as they live in a deserted part of town with the rest of the family in trailers and Colby sends them on missions to cause havoc and break the law in town. It truly is a family affair, but Chad always seems to be the go to guy for big jobs and general mayhem. When enough becomes enough, Chad tries to leave the family but Colby is not a force to be reckoned with. The overarching question is, can Chad manage to escape his father and siblings to protect his family or will he forever be stuck with the hand he was dealt?
Trespass Against Us truly is a great addition to TIFF ’16 with its powerhouse performances from both Fassbender and Gleeson making this one of many must-see Films at the Festival.
It screens on Friday, September 9, 2016 at 10 PM at Princess of Wales and Saturday September 10, 2016 at 11:45 AM at the Bloor Hot Docs Theatre.
#TIFF16: “SNOWDEN”
How do you make a story about the process behind the leaking of documents one that engages and rivets? Oliver Stone does just this, delivering perhaps his greatest work in quite some time in Snowden.
The story still fresh on our minds, Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets deep into the psyche of whistleblower/traitor (however you stand on the matter) Edward Snowden as we witness his rise as a young man within the Central Intelligence Agency, where he learns that the privacy and fundamental rights of Americans are threatened when he is made aware that the big eight telecommunication corporations in the U.S. store and make accessible the activities of Americans to the National Security Agency.
Despite the government denying this, Snowden struggles with himself in a battle between conscience and career before deciding famously to leak several highly-classified documents, which prove exactly what the U.S. government didn’t want the world to know.
Gordon-Levitt is front and center in a masterful performance where from certain angles and in certain frames, we truly feel we are witnessing the real Snowden. The story plays from several angles, looking at his struggle with health, love, the government and also himself and on most levels he nails this portrait of a man both revered and misunderstood.
SNOWDEN screens at TIFF Friday, September 9, 2016 at 9 PM Roy Thomson Hall, Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 12:00 PM Roy Thomson Hall and Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 9:45 AM Scotiabank Theatre.
#TIFF16: “SNOWDEN”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Where does one start with Oliver Stone? The man has made some incredible Films and fortunately hia newest effort, Snowden it falls in this category.
Joseph-Gordon Levitt stars as Edward Snowden the man who single-handedly took down the National Security Agency. Snowden was one of the youngest recruits to the NSA and took it upon himself to make it known through the leaking of highly-classified documents proving the government had access to our communication devices. However, how does Snowden go about his noble feat while protecting himself and the ones he loves, including Lindsay Mills (Shailene Woodley) his girlfriend?
What makes Snowden so facinating is the amount of detail the Film reveals about Snowden’s journey, even if it feels disjointed at times with its non-linear approach. The Film falls flat slightly within the Third Act in what should be Snowden‘s intense escape from prosecution. However the performances from both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley are remarkable.
SNOWDEN screens Friday, September 9, 2016 at 9:30 PM at Roy Thomson Hall and Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 12:00 PM at Roy Thomson Hall.
#TIFF16: DAY 2 SIGHTINGS – LEONARDO DICAPRIO, ANNE HATHAWAY, DOUGLAS BOOTH, CHADWICK BOSEMAN, DAVID OYELOWO, SANDRA OH, ANNE HECHE, BEL POWLEY, MELANIE LYNSKEY, VANESSA BAYER, SHAILENE WOODLEY, MELISSA LEO, BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD, VALORIE CURRY + MORE
It was a massively star-studded second day in Toronto and Team Mr. Will had a bit better luck after a bit of a slow start to TIFF ‘ 16! Newly-minted Academy Award winner Leonardo DiCaprio had King Street shut down as he walked the Red Carpet with grace for Global Warming Documentary BEFORE THE FLOOD, signing a whole lot of autographs for Fans who queued hours to see him in a rare visit to the City! Later on in the day, Joseph Gordon-Levitt faced the Media and Fans at the Premiere for his Award Season vehicle, SNOWDEN at Roy Thomson Hall. Meanwhile, Anne Hathaway brought a sizable crowd to Ryerson Theatre to see her latest effort, COLOSSAL at its World Premiere. While immersed in controversy of late, THE BIRTH OF NATION, starring, written and directed by Nate Parker got two Premieres tonight around town and its run at TIFF ’16 just might be the publicity it needs to get itself back on the right path.
Leonardo DiCaprio, BEFORE THE FLOOD
More #LeonardoDiCaprio. #BeforetheFlood #TIFF16
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Anne Hathaway, COLOSSAL
Anne. #TIFF16 #COLOSSAL #AnneHathaway
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Douglas Booth, THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM
Bel Powley, CARRIE PILBY
Breakout star #BelPowley, star of #CarriePilby. #TIFF16
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Melanie Lynskey + Jason Ritter, CARRIE PILBY
Vanessa Bayer, CARRIE PILBY
#SNL’s #VanessaBayer at #TIFF16 with #CarriePilby.
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David Oyelowo, A UNITED KINGDOM + QUEEN OF KATWE
Sandra Oh, CATFIGHT + WINDOW HORSES
#SandraOh at #TIFF16 with #Catfight and #WindowHorses.
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Anne Heche, CATFIGHT
Sam Underwood + Valorie Curry – Curry is here for both BLAIR WITCH + AMERICAN PASTORAL
With #SamUnderwood + #ValorieCurry. #TIFF16 #TheFollowing #AmericanPastoral
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Chadwick Boseman, MESSAGE FROM THE KING
Nolan Funk – here to enjoy TIFF
Melissa Leo, SNOWDEN
Ruth Negga, LOVING
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Bryce Dallas Howard, BLACK MIRROR
Shailene Woodley, SNOWDEN
#ShaileneWoodley makes a quiet entrance in a stunning gown. She is at #TIFF16 with #Snowden.
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