Among the hippest, most avant-garde film events on North America Film Festival circuit, the Montreal Festival of Nouveau Cinema begins today by showcasing a little homegrown talent with the world premiere of Olivier Asselin‘s A Sentimental Capitalism which will be paired tonight with Next Floor, a Cannes short film winner and possible early Oscar nom favorite from Denis Villeneuve. And speaking of Cannes, this year’s fest is loaded up on pictures from the Croisette and is closing out its 37th edition with Palme d’Or winner The Class.
Generally the selection is more in tune with my taste buds so I can venture out on some subtitled film that I may have ordinarily pass on in these bigger events and it also acts as a way to see films that I might have missed out on at TIFF and as far back as Cannes, with Tulpan being at the top of my must see list. For my planned coverage, I’m looking on adding some film reviews and will sit on some of the master classes that are being offered with Abdellatif Kechiche, Jacques Doillon and John Boorman who’ll be receiving the lifetime achievement Louve d’Honneur award.
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