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festivals, reactions, TIFF claudine vinasithamby, dheepan, foreign film, french, jacques audiard, jesuthasan antonythasan, kalieaswari srinivasan, sri lankan, TIFF 2015

DHEEPAN plays TIFF 2015

September 12, 2015

The creator of RUST AND BONE wants us to ask ourselves just how fragile “a good man” really is?

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Ryan McNeil
blind spot series 2015 blindspot, belle et la bete, blindspot, foreign film, french, jean cocteau, jean marais, josette day, marcel andre

Blindsided by BELLE ET LA BÊTE

August 25, 2015

Wait a moment: Why isn’t that teacup singing?

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Ryan McNeil
blind spot series 1995, 2015 blindspot, blindspot, french, hubert kounde, la haine, mathieu kassovitz, saïd taghmaoui, vincent cassel

Blindsided by LA HAINE

June 30, 2015

How does one stop things from going from bad to worse?

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 4 stars, assa sylla, bande de filles, céline sciamma, foreign film, french, girlhood, idrissa diabaté, karidja touré, lindsay karamoh, mariétou touré, women in film

GIRLHOOD

March 8, 2015

Turns out theres a lot going on in between those selfies and snickers.

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Ryan McNeil
blind spot series 1993, 1994, 2014 blindspot, benoît régent, florence pernel, foreign film, french, irène jacob, janusz gajos, jean-louis trintignant, jean-pierre lorit, julie delpy, juliette binoche, krzysztof kieślowski, trois coulers blanc, trois coulers bleu, trois coulers rouge, trois coulers trilogy, zbigniew zamachowski

Blindsided by TROIS COULEURS

December 29, 2014

Blindspotting for 2014 ends not with a whimper, but with a great, big, three-course bang.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF 3 couers, benoît poelvoorde, catherine deneuve, charlotte gainsbourg, chiara mastroianni, foreign film, french, three hearts, TIFF 2014

THREE HEARTS (3 Coeurs) plays TIFF 2014

September 13, 2014

So, you’ve fallen in love with two sisters…

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Ryan McNeil
trailers fabrizio rongione, foreign film, french, jean-pierre dardenne, luc dardenne, marion cotillard, TIFF 2014, two days one night

This Woman’s Work: TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT Trailer

August 21, 2014

As TIFF creeps ever closer, my eye begins to wander around the world for some worthy foreign selections.

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Ryan McNeil
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