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TIFF

festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF foreign film, french, gilles lellouche, maría valverde, melanie laurent, plonger, tiff 2017, women in film

PLONGER plays TIFF 2017

September 17, 2017

Director Mélanie Laurent reminds us that the ones who stay put, sometimes claim they’ve run away.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF antonio aakeel, arjun gupta, bornila chatterjee, foreign film, indian, jayant kripalani, karan pandit, naseeruddin shah, neeraj kabi, savita rani, sayani gupta, suraj sharma, the hungry, tiff, tiff 2017, tisca chopra, women in film

THE HUNGRY plays TIFF 2017

September 16, 2017

“Titus” throws a lavish Indian wedding, and Bornila Chatterjee captures every bloody moment.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF bernie bonvoisin, bruno forzani, elina löwensohn, forign film, french, hélène cattet, hervé sogne, laissez bronzer les cadavres, let the corpses tan, marc barbé, marine sainsily, michelangelo marchese, midnight madness, stéphane ferrara, tiff, tiff 2017, women in film

LET THE CORPSES TAN plays TIFF 2017

September 15, 2017

Gold, blood, and conceptual art. All in a day’s work for some.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF foreign film, french, gael garcia bernal, if you saw his heart, joan chemla, marine vacth, nahuel pérez, si tu voyais son coeur, tiff, tiff 2017, women in film

IF YOU SAW HIS HEART plays TIFF 2017

September 13, 2017

A confessional, amorous, and honest cinematic letter from a promising new director.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF bradley whitford, brie larson, comedy, drama, hamish linklater, joan cusack, mamoudou athie, samuel l jackson, tiff 2017, unicorn store, women in film

UNICORN STORE plays TIFF 2017

September 12, 2017

A colourful, joyous, and messy feature debut from director Brie Larson.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF ainsley gardiner, awanui simich-pene, briar grace-smith, casey kaa, chelsea cohen, katie wolfe, new zealand, paula jones, renae maihi, tiff 2017, waru, women in film

WARU plays TIFF 2017

September 11, 2017

Eight women come together to create an intricate tapestry of the angst in the wake of one boy’s death.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, Ryan Recommends, screenings, TIFF brady jandreau, chloe zhao, the rider, tiff, tiff 2017, women in film

THE RIDER plays TIFF 2017

September 10, 2017

An elegy for broken dreams and shattered purpose from director Chloé Zhao

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Ryan McNeil
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