Benediction may be Terence Davies’s gayest film yet: a character study of a WWI poet who keeps trying to reinvent himself and find solace.
Toronto International Film Festival
‘The more we went inside Lise’s perspective, the better it got’: Tea Lindeburg on As in Heaven
Director Tea Lindeburg discusses her remarkable film As in Heaven about a day in the life of a teenage girl about to lose everything in 1880s Denmark.
TIFF Review: Learn to Swim is treading water
Thyrone Tommy’s feature debut is all vibe with little substance but it nails the milieu of twentysomething jazz musicians in Canada.
Oscar Peterson: Black + White does a disservice to its subject
Barry Avrich’s documentary Oscar Peterson: Black + White barely scratches the surface of the great jazz pianist’s life, music, and legacy.
TIFF Review: Aloners is a melancholy ode to society’s loners
South Korean filmmaker Hong Seong-eun’s Aloners is a low-key film about loneliness and how capitalism takes advantage of depressed people.
TIFF Review: Scarborough is one of the festival’s most stirring crowdpleasers
Scarborough, from directors Rich Williamson and Shasha Nakhai, is a big-hearted portrait of families in a low-income neighbourhood.