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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 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 edith scob, foreign film, french, isabelle huppert, mia hansen-løve, roman kolinka, things to come, tiff, tiff 2016

THINGS TO COME plays TIFF 2016

September 9, 2016

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

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 2.5 stars, danny boon, foreign film, french, julie delpy, karin viard, lolo, vincent lacoste, women in film

LOLO

June 12, 2016

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

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Ryan McNeil
blind spot series 2015 blindspot, blindspot, charles boyer, criterion, danielle darrieux, foreign film, french, max ophüls, the earrings of madame de..., vittorio de sica

Blindsided by THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE…

November 24, 2015

When a beautifully captured film depicts people acting terribly selfish.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF aomi muyock, foreign film, french, gaspar noé, karl glusman, klara kristin, love, TIFF 2015

LOVE plays TIFF 2015

September 20, 2015

There’s sex and there’s love. What we find in-between is both ugly and beautiful.

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Ryan McNeil
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