Short Film Showcase at YoungCuts Film Festival
Justin Trudeau will open this year’s YoungCuts Film Festival. That’s a measure of how far this festival, showcasing films from young, up and coming auteurs, has come. Trudeau’s talk this afternoon kicks off the 8th annual festival. Here’s some of what you’ll see.
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Film Reviews of Bjarnfredarson & Beloved Berlin Wall
Iceland may be a cold place, but it’s got a warm hear
t, if Ragnar Bragason’s latest film, Bjarnfredarson, is anything to go by. The film, at the Montreal World Film Festival, is based on a popular Icelandic television series about three misfits whose only commonality is a criminal past.
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Film Reviews of Three Documentaries
What do these things have in common: one of the last remaining matriarchal societies; an architect who has shaped a brave new world; and an exploration of the misunderstood despot, Vlad the Impaler? Answer? How our world is built and destroyed. Showing at the Montreal World Film Festival are these three wildly different documentaries – The Fall of Womenland, How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?, and The Truth About Dracula.
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Film Review — Hamseyeh, a Farsi film set in Vancouver
Women often bear the burden of childrearing and community-building while men absent themselves physically or emotionally. In Hamseyeh (The Neighbor), this universal phenomenon, and much more, is explored from the perspective of Iranian immigrants in Vancouver.
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Film Review of Simone & Gustave
Emanuela Piovano’s Le Stelle Inquiete is an unconventional romance, rich with ideas and imagery. Based on the life of French philosopher Simone Weil’s life, it focuses on an experience of hers two years before she died at the age of 34. Entirely devoted to her passionate pursuit of knowledge, affairs of the heart hold no interest for her. But in the summer of 1941, fate steps into Simone’s life . . . Check out the rest of my review here.
Film Review of Liquid Love
This year’s Montreal Film Festival opens today, and I’ll be covering it for Roverarts.com. Check out my review of the Italian film Amore Liquido directed by Marco Luca Cattaneo. My editor gave the review of this dark film a rather delightful title: “Mario’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure.”
