…confesses her loneliness to her father while they sit together on her father’s temporary bed in her apartment. Unlike Jonah and his mother, her father responds with comforting words —…
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Québecois writer-director Anne Émond talks Nelly
…three feature films under her belt, Québécois writer-director Anne Émond has already distinguished herself as one of Canada’s best filmmakers. Her first film, Nuit #1, about one night in the…
The Forty-Year-Old Version: A brilliant comedy about the struggle not to sell out
…parents were artists — her mother an artist, her father a jazz drummer — and it’s evident how much her late mother meant to her by how she avoids clearing…
Sundance 2019 World Dramatic highlights
…of a middle-aged Brazilian maid and her relationship with her employer’s son — whom she treated as her own — and her own biological daughter. And in 2017, the Turkish…
TIFF 23 Film Review: Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall
…and is perhaps the only Triet heroine who doesn’t seem to be lying to herself or the architect of her problems. Her oversized clothing, combined with her pixie cut, codes…
The best 20 films of TIFF 2019
…Vietnamese immigrants — about family secrets and traumas: her mother discusses the lack of physical intimacy she shared with her own mother; her sister shares how, growing up, she felt…