In this capsule review from the San Francisco Frameline Film Festival, Alex Heeney reviews Carmen Emmi’s feature debut Plainclothes.
Essays
HotDocs Review: Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh’s The Nest
Alex Heeney reviews Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh’s The Nest, a Gothic documentary about a haunted house that reveals lesser-known parts of Winnipeg’s intersectional history.
InsideOut Reviews: Sandbag Dam, The Nature of Invisible Things
Alex Heeney reviews Rafaela Camelo’s The Nature of Invisible Things and Čejen Černić Čanak’s Sandbag Dam at Toronto’s InsideOut LGBTQ+ Film Festival: two sensitive films about young people that young people should see.
Film Review: Pauline Loquès’s Nino at Cannes
Alex Heeney reviews Pauline Loquès’s feature debut, Nino, starring Théodore Pellerin, which screens in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes. The film tells the story of a twentysomething man’s nervewrecking weekend after he’s diagnosed with c
ancer and before he starts treatment.
Film Review: Alice Douard’s Love Letters
Alex Heeney reviews Alice Douard’s debut feature Love Letters, which screens in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes. The film tells the story of a queer woman in 2014 whose partner is pregnant with their child, and the paperwork involved with becoming her daughter’s legal parent.
HotDocs Review: Reid Davenport’s Life After
Alex Heeney reviews Reid Davenport’s new film, Life After, which tackles the troubling trend toward assisted dying for disabled people, including Canada’s own MAiD program.