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Tag: french

festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

SPIRIT OF ECSTASY plays TIFF 2023

Chasing our dreams can be intimidating, but we mustn’t be afraid to be afraid.

Posted on September 11, 2023September 11, 2023
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

SAINT OMER plays TIFF 2022

Sometimes a film will look you in the eye and ask you to search your soul.

Posted on September 17, 2022September 17, 2022
festivals, screenings, TIFF

TITANE plays TIFF 2021

What do you get when you cross a Whitesnake video, Claire Denis, Anthony Burgess, and Barbara Streisand?

Posted on September 17, 2021September 17, 2021
festivals, reactions, TIFF

THE MAD WOMEN’S BALL plays TIFF 2021

Who is sane and who is sound is often only determined by who signs the papers and holds the keys.

Posted on September 14, 2021September 14, 2021
festivals, reactions, TIFF

PETITE MAMAN plays TIFF 2021

TIFF 2021 gets off to a stunning start with a tender masterpiece on death, family, friendship, and grief.

Posted on September 10, 2021September 10, 2021
festivals, reactions, TIFF

SPRING BLOSSOM plays TIFF 2020

A new french director tells a familiar story from a different point of view.

Posted on September 19, 2020September 19, 2020
blind spot series

Blindsided by L’ATALANTE

We can make all the plans we want, but ultimately we are in the hands of forces bigger than us

Posted on October 3, 2017November 5, 2017
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

PLONGER plays TIFF 2017

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

Posted on September 17, 2017September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

LET THE CORPSES TAN plays TIFF 2017

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

Posted on September 15, 2017October 2, 2017
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

IF YOU SAW HIS HEART plays TIFF 2017

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

Posted on September 13, 2017September 17, 2017
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

THINGS TO COME plays TIFF 2016

Study the ways of the world all you want; the world will still do to you whatever it damned well pleases.

Posted on September 9, 2016September 13, 2016
reviews

LOLO

Relationship approval from our parents is nothing compared to relationship approval from our children.

Posted on June 12, 2016September 11, 2020

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