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Movies & TV Toronto International Film Festival 2018

TIFF 2018 Day 2: What To See, What To Skip

Highly recommended

Mouthpiece

Patricia Rozema’s bracingly original and poignant adaptation of the experimental play of the same name opened TIFF’s Special Presentations series last night and is already generating a lot of buzz. It features an all-female creative team and a cameo by your favourite alt-weekly. Check out Glenn Sumi’s feature on the film here and his review here.

Capernaum

Lebanese actor/director Nadine Labaki was one of only three women directors in competition at Cannes earlier this year and won the Jury Prize for this compassionate film about a 12-year-old Beirut boy who wants wants to sue his parents for bringing him into the world. See review.

Edge Of The Knife

Tyler York delivers a performance that goes from restless and raw to tragic and ferocious in this film from directors Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown. It’s also the first movie to be told in Haida dialects – languages that reportedly less than 20 people still speak fluently. See review.

Dead Souls

One of the world’s preeminent documentarians, Wang Bing, returns to Toronto with this eight-hour examination of Chinese hard-labour camps in the late 1950s an early 1960s. An eye-opening and monumental work chronicling a largely untold story. A truly unique festival experience. See review.

Not recommended

Loro

Oscar-winning Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s film about boisterous prime minister Silvio Berlusconi gives new meaning to the word gratuitous. See review.

The Fall Of The American Empire

Denys Arcand returns to banal philosophical themes in the latest entry in his American Empire series. Nothing interesting happens in this movie. See review.

Wild cards

L. COHEN

Avant-garde veteran James Benning’s single-take tribute to the late Leonard Cohen gets a special one-off screening in TIFF Bell Lightbox’s cinema 1. A must-attend screening for experimental film fans.

Vox Lux

Natalie Portman once threw a New Year’s Eve party with Britney Spears and now she’s starring as a Britney-esque pop star in a movie soundtracked by Sia and Scott Walker. An intriguing late addition to this year’s lineup that arrives in Toronto following its world premiere in Venice.

Graves Without A Name

Innovative Cambodian-born, Paris-based director Rithy Panh brings this personal and ghostly meditation on grief and what it means to survive genocide to TIFF. One of our most anticipated films playing in the TIFF Docs program. 

Donnybrook

Memphis and Dark Night director Tim Sutton is known for low-key indie films that take narrative risks. His fourth feature is his first with major star power – Jamie Bell – and is screening in TIFF’s competition program Platform. 

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