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Toronto 2019: Jojo Rabbit takes People’s Choice Award

By CineVue 16 September 201931 December 2019

Christopher Machell / Toronto

Despite dividing critics following its world premiere, Jojo Rabbit won over audiences in the public vote: Joker may well have had the last laugh at Venice, but it was Taika Waititi’s Second World War satire that won over audiences in Toronto, hopping ahead as a favourite in the coming awards season race. Waititi’s film Continue Reading

Film Review: So Long, My Son

By CineVue 16 September 201931 December 2019

Christopher Machell / Reviews

★★★★★ “I don’t want to be like my mum,” Haohao (Du Jiang) tells old family friends Yaojun (Wang Jingchung) and Liyun (Yong Mei), “living with guilt until the end”. In veteran Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai’s sweeping sixteenth feature, guilt, forgiveness and acceptance span generations, buffeted by the sweeping forces of Continue Reading