Toronto
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Toronto 2014: ‘Justice’ review
★★☆☆☆ Most of the contemporary cinema that European audiences get to consume from the Philippines come from visionary (and festival favoured) directors such as Lav Diaz or Raya Martin. The former’s From What Is Before (2014) is not the only film from the country to feature in the programme of this year’s Toronto International Film…
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Toronto 2014: ‘Partners in Crime’ review
★★★☆☆ “If you run into anything unpleasant you must learn to face it yourself,” states a kindly counsellor in Chang Jung-chi’s sophomore feature Partners in Crime (Gong Fan, 2014). Little could she have imagined just the extent to which the three boys stood before her would take the advice to heart. They become the sleuthing…
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Toronto 2014: ‘From What Is Before’ review
★★★★☆ “The memory of a cataclysm” is how a voiceover at the end of Lav Diaz’s latest monumental feat, the Locarno-storming From What Is Before (Mula sa kung ano ang noon, 2014), describes the preceding five-and-a-half hours. One character foresees armageddon, while another promises that “hell is coming.” In what could well be the director’s…
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Toronto 2014: Read our TIFF programme preview
This Thursday (4 September), the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival will kick off in Canada with David Dobkin’s courtroom drama The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall. Over the proceeding week and a half, before the cinematic cornucopia reaches its conclusion with Brit Alan Rickman’s A Little Chaos, festival-goers will attend almost 300…