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festivals, reactions, TIFF animated, foreign, french, patrice leconte, TIFF 2012

SUICIDE SHOP (LE MAGASIN DE SUICIDES) Plays TIFF 2012

September 16, 2012

A plucky animated selection was just what the doctor ordered on a Sunday afternoon at TIFF. But make no mistake, this ain’t no Pixar flick.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF amour, austrian, emmanuelle riva, foreign, french, isabelle huppert, jean-louis trintignant, michael haneke, TIFF 2012

AMOUR Plays TIFF 2012

September 16, 2012

When they ask if you take this person for better or for worse, they should emphasize the “worse”.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF adam driver, comedy, frances ha, grace gummer, greta gerwig, michael zegen, mickey summer, noah baumbach, patrick heusinger, TIFF 2012

FRANCES HA Plays TIFF 2012

September 16, 2012

When Frances moved from Sacramento to New York, this couldn’t have been what she had in mind.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF ben wishaw, cloud atlas, david gyashi, halle berry, hugh grant, hugo weaving, jim broadbent, jim sturgess, sci-fi, susan sarandon, the wachowskis, TIFF 2012, tom hanks, tom tykwer, xun zhou

CLOUD ATLAS Plays TIFF 2012

September 16, 2012

The creators of RUN LOLA RUN and THE MATRIX have come together on a project that is amazingly venturesome.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF alexis denisof, amy acker, clark gregg, fran kranz, jillian morgese, joss whedon, much ado about nothing, nathan fillion, TIFF 2012

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Plays TIFF 2012

September 15, 2012

O, what men dare do!
What men may do!
What men daily do,
not knowing what they do…

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF adrían garcía bogliano, alan martinez, francisco barreiro, here comes the devil, horror, laura caro, mexican, michele garcia, TIFF 2012

HERE COMES THE DEVIL Plays TIFF 2012

September 15, 2012

I’ve never watched a film with earplugs in, but on this afternoon, that really might have helped matters.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF charlene mckenna, ciarán mcmenamin, irish, jump, kieron walsh, lalor roddy, martin mccann, nichola burley, packy lee, richard dormer, TIFF 2012, valene kane

JUMP Plays TIFF

September 15, 2012

A clever film about stepping to the edge and taking the leap. One that smiles warmly, asks us to trust it, and assures us that we’ll land safely.

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Ryan McNeil
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