2021 Toronto Film Festival

Benedict Cumberbatch is pulling double duty at TIFF. Already the talk of Venice with The Power of The Dog - (co-starring Kirsten Dunst and Jess Plemons) which won the Best Director award for Jane Campion.

Oscar and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Eva Orner was visiting her family in Australia in the summer of 2019/20 when catastrophic bushfires broke out across the country. Australia has always been a continent ravaged by fire.

Julia opens to the raucous, back-and-forth guitar licks of Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire” — a decidedly unanticipated and seemingly outside-the-box choice for co-directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s genial nonfiction assaying of author and celebrity chef Julia Child, which otherwise trades largely in traditional rhythms, and unfolds in expected ways. But then again, maybe, given its lyrical evocation of “only one burning desire,” it appropriately captures the singular passion of its subject.

Justine Bateman, former child star of 80s sitcom Family Ties, makes her feature film directorial debut with the thought-provoking drama, Violet, at the Toronto Film Festival. The success of the film rests on the shoulders of Olivia Munn, playing a successful Hollywood executive, Violet, who battles multiple insecurities exacerbated by the voice in her head (otherwise known as ‘the committee’) voiced by Justin Theroux, who takes her to task at every opportunity.

La premiere mundial de Lo invisible en el Festival de Toronto marca un retorno para el cine ecuatoriano en el importante evento cinematográfico, pero también es casi como un traspaso de la antorcha, porque el último director de ese país que estuvo allí es Sebastián Cordero, quien fue, casualmente, profesor de cine de Javier Andrade y también el director de Ratas, ratones, rateros, el filme en el que éste tuvo un pequeño papel como actor. Protagonizada por Anahí Hoeneisen, quien es también la coguionista, Lo invisible muestra la descomposición emocional y psicológica de una mujer de la alta sociedad que no puede superar la depresión post-parto.

Early September in entertainment: the kickoff of the season begins.  First with the Venice Film Festival and then with TIFF.