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History and Memory

Explore the blurry line between history and memory on screen.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Celine Sciamma

Alex Heeney / September 30, 2019

Portrait of a Lady on Fire was the gold standard at TIFF19

Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a beautiful period romance that upends cinematic stereotypes of the artistic muse.

Orla Smith / September 13, 2019

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.

Alex Heeney / September 10, 2019

TIFF19 review: Comets , a lovely film about memory, missed opportunities, and lost loves

Tamar Shavgulidze’s quiet, lovely Comets is a film about memory, missed opportunities, and lost loves.

Indian Horse, Richard Wagamese, Stephen Campanelli, Dennis Foon

Brett Pardy / April 13, 2018

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 grapple with Canada’s darkest policy: the Indian residential school system. Read the rest of our TIFF coverage here.

Female directors TIFF, Sami Blood

Alex Heeney / May 31, 2017

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 worlds. Read our interview with writer-director Amanda Kernell. Read our review of Kernell’s second feature, Charter.

Distant Voices, Still Lives

Brett Pardy / April 20, 2017

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, prefigures those of Davies’ later literary adaptations. Editor’s note: This is the fifth feature in our Special Issue on Terence Davies’ A Quiet Passion, which can be read in full here.

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