Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #139. Caitlin Cronenberg’s Humane

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Humane

We’ll begin 2023 will a new Cronenberg film, and we’ll likely conclude the year with another Cronenberg film and neither items are signed David. Caitlin Cronenberg will hatch her directorial debut as well. Filmed in backyard Toronto (and Hamilton), Humane is toplined by Canuck starlets Jay Baruchel and Emily Hampshire. Production took place this past October with a text detailing a small window during the end of times. Until her debut, Caitlin has been a photographer for some time now and then she made the leap into music videos.

Gist: This takes place over a single day months after a global environmental collapse has forced world leaders to take extreme measures to reduce the earth’s population. In a wealthy enclave, a recently retired newsman invites his four grown children to dinner to announce his intentions to enlist in the nation’s new euthanasia program. But when the father’s plan goes horribly awry, tensions flare and chaos erupts among his children.

Release Date/Prediction: The Midnight section at TIFF will want to open with this.

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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