TIFF Toronto International Film Festival

TIFF films — one’s reborn, the other goes nuclear

Renaissance is director Christian Volckman’s feature debut. This is film noir (et blanc) set in the future, complete with a tough cop hero, a sexy missing female, her sexier sister, powerful men with mysterious aims and a trail of dead witnesses. This works for the first three quarters of the film but the story is

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Two Films and a Wedding until 1:00

Saturday I went directly from my two festival films to a wedding in the St. Andrews club overlooking Toronto Harbour and, incidentally, the Roy Thompson Hall gala. I think I was having a better time which means these reviews are short. La Tourneuse de Pages was a deliberately slow-moving thriller which avoids the obvious choices.

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