TIFF 2013
Le Démantèlement
Sébastien Pilote
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013
Quietly and unassumingly, Le Démantèlement (Sébastien Pilote's modernist ersatz-take on King Lear) unfolds as a contemplative character pie...
Sarah Prefers to Run
Chloé Robichaud
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013
With extreme formality, dividing up each shot of every aerobic sequence with equal runtime, vacillating between medium close-ups and close-...
The Past
Asghar Farhadi
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013
As was the case with his Oscar-winning domestic drama, A Separation, Asghar Farhadi's The Past preoccupies itself with divorce and familial...
Gabrielle
Louise Archambault
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013
Louise Archambault's Gabrielle is a respectful, honest and moving story about love, music and personal independence. It also happens to be...
Concrete Night
Pirjo Honkaselo
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013
Pirjo Honkaselo's first narrative film in 15 years, Concrete Night opens, quite exquisitely, with a dream. Fourteen-year-old Simo (Johannes...
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013
Having already established an effective template for deconstructing and analyzing the complexities that comprise a functioning institution,...
Metallica: Through the Never 3D
Nimród Antal
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013
Unlike the abundance of overly sanitized, youth-oriented concert films from the likes of Katy Perry and One Direction, cashing in on the di...
Young & Beautiful
Francois Ozon
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013
Throughout his career as a director, François Ozon has openly played with genre and theory, making sweeping emotional tales cold and asceti...