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TIFF 2009 Day 6: Adrian Biniez’s Gigante
If it weren't for a fair number of comical elements, Gigante would be a creepy proposition. Adrian Biniez's debut film, a low-budget minimalist offering in the tradition of the film's from his fellow filmmakers from Uruguay, is a fairly unassuming offering that works with one basic premise.
TIFF 2009 Day 6: Aaron Schneider’s Get Low
A guaranteed audience pleaser that works from a premise that certainly sounds alluring, Aaron Schneider's debut film is formulaic, sticks to conventions – but for me Get Low was a dull anaesthetic.
TIFF 2009 Day 6: Tom Ford’s A Single Man
Despite getting lost with perfume ad fantasy elements and a constant flux of punctuating each scene with stylistic flourishes, A Single Man isn't a case of all style and no substance – there is a “pinch” of substance in this admirable debut from fashion icon Tom Ford.
TIFF 2009 Day 6: Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime
Todd Solondz' follow up to Happiness won the best screenplay award in Venice – for very specific reasons, the dialogue sharply sticks it to the batch of unlike-able characters and Allison Janney steals the show when comparing her character to the pantheon of scary mothers who mean well.
TIFF 2009 Day 5: Claire Denis’ White Material
Claire Denis returns to a scene that is familiar to her and yet the Africa that she presents this time out is a black eye snapshot.
