Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a beautiful period romance that upends cinematic stereotypes of the artistic muse. This is a preview of our book …
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History and Memory
Explore the blurry line between history and memory on screen.
TIFF19 review: Our Lady of the Nile , a heartbreaking look at the corruption of innocence
An innocent utopia foreshadows horrific violence in Atiq Rahimi’s Our Lady of the Nile, one of the best acquisition titles at TIFF19. Read our interview with …
TIFF19 review: Comets , a lovely film about memory, missed opportunities, and lost loves
Short and sweet, Tamar Shavgulidze's Comets is one of the best films still seeking distribution at TIFF19. Tamar Shavgulidze’s quiet, lovely Comets is a film …
Review: Indian Horse and the limits of allyship in adaptation
Based on Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese’s novel set in the 1960s, Stephen Campanelli's Indian Horse uses the hook of Canada’s national sport — hockey — to …
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Review: In Sami Blood, an Indigenous Swedish girl is caught between two worlds
Amanda Kernell’s Sami Blood is an astonishingly accomplished and movie feature debut, which follows an Indigenous Swedish girl caught between two …
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A tyrant and control freak: the patriarch in Davies’ Distant Voices, Still Lives prefigures the father figures in his later films
In Terence Davies’ films, fathers tend to control the domestic sphere: the abusive patriarch in Distant Voices, Still Lives, based on Davies’ own father, …