TIFF 2019 Review: On the Spiritual Strivings of Trey Edward Shultsโ ‘Waves’
“For a story that engages with tough, thorny questions of redemption and reconciliation, itโs a welcome development to have a filmmaker look upwards, not inwards.”
“For a story that engages with tough, thorny questions of redemption and reconciliation, itโs a welcome development to have a filmmaker look upwards, not inwards.”
โThe success of โThe Crossingโ and โThe Third Wifeโ should speak to the unique ability of female filmmakers and female characters in filling in the narrative gaps in Vietnamese and Chinese cinema, in which male directors wield dominant creative control.โ
Bedatri Datta Choudhury Interviews Italian Director Laura Luchetti
โโGreen Bookโ becomes more than a comforting story of a friendship that today would actually be perfectly likely when its baseline intersectionality shows its limits.โ
Marshall Shaffer Interviews Italian Actor Marcello Fonte
โApart from fantastic performances from its cast, especially Bomer and Patiรฑo,ย Papi Chuloโs biggest strength is the subtlety and grace with which it deals with the wide cross-section of issues it touches upon.โ
โThe influence of Larry Clarkโs 1995 cult film โKidsโ may be all over โMid90s,โ but Hill has a more tender and perhaps more realistic approach of his young subjects: they are smart enough to know when theyโre going too far.โ
โWhat โFirst Manโ might lack in emotionality, Chazelle more than compensates for in spectacle.โ
โWithin the power plays of a self-aware love triangle, Garrel examines love, sex and companionship and tries to get to a point where everyone meets and exists in perfect harmony. Itโs a tug of war between these three, and the final result is basically a test of which one outlives the others.โ
โFor a film revolving around an actor destroyed by a bad reputation, โThe Death and Life of John F. Donovanโย remains frustratingly vague about the mediaโs indiscretions that bring Johnโs downfall.โ
โโWidowsโ offers the thrills and the feelings, the political and the sentimental corruption, the men but also, and especially, the women behind them, who will do anything for love, but wonโt do that.โ
โBy being so lazy and aggressive with his judgment of pop culture, Corbet ends up making a film that is bland in its anger, annoying in its attacks and ridiculous in its contempt for its characters and audience.โ
โโThe Kindergarten Teacherโ is purposefully not a comfortable watch, but it satisfies in many ways. Not only is its central character an imperfect woman, but she also expresses her palpable rage in a strange and fascinating form of intellectual violence.โ
โAudiard finds the real drama of the film in how the seemingly boundless promise of the land collides with the very real limitations of the human imagination and body.โ
โFor a film about an eternal conflict, โNon-Fictionโ is a strangely calming film. It quietly assures you that while a fight for permanence is natural, the need to change is also equally natural.โ
TIFF 2017: ‘Dark River,’ ‘Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,’ ‘Alanis,’ ‘Beast,’ ‘Occidental’
“Step aside, LBJ, your time in the spotlight is done.”
“‘Zama’ is the kind of historical film that refuses to concede even the smallest positivity to the history in question.”
“Guillermo del Toro may very well be cinemaโs reigning master of monster mythology.”
“Have they never heard of negative space?”