In 2010, Ukraine’s Sergei Loznitsa was the only first time filmmaker to crack the Main Competition line-up. With My Joy (we were one of the film’s small group of supporters) we had the road trip from hell. Two years later, we have the Catch 22 situation from hell. Loznitsa’s In the Fog focuses on the worst of two evils — be part of the resistance and ultimately sign your own death warrant, or join/sympathize with German occupation — either case, the film’s lead protag is stuck with a moral choice under immoral circumstances. Slotted late in the fest, the film received four four-star grades and possibly if more might have seen it could have worked itself into a top three favorites. Click to enlarge!
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, editor-in-chief and film critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric splits his time between his home base in Montreal, NYC, and is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs:
Almodóvar (Talk to Her), Coen Bros. (Fargo), Dardennes (La Promesse), Haneke (Caché), Hsiao-Hsien (Three Times), Kar-wai (In the Mood for Love), Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry), Lynch (Mulholland Dr.), Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho), von Trier (Breaking the Waves)
