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TIFF 2009 Day 5: Soi Cheang’s Accident
A title that received tremendous buzz from Venice, I came into Soi Cheang's Accident (produced by Johnnie To) not knowing much, and though the intro sequence is well plotted, this tale of a team of assassins covering up their tracks in a picture perfect manner, falls in the trappings of a screenplay that attempt to get too creative and too witty in its smallish shell.
TIFF 2009 Day 5: Atom Egoyan’s Chloe
Just plain silly from the get-go, Atom Egoyan's Chloe might be my guilty pleasure of this festival/year with its Fatal Attraction-esque nature and the film's foot soldiers Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried losing their clothes in a lust fest
Film Review: Paris
"While this is his most mature work to date, with Paris we get about a 120 minutes worth of a screenplay that skips along from one dramatic or comedic number usually finding the middle of intimate moment shared by two beings, but there is no strategic employment of the characters, no thematic cord that brings everything together..."
TIFF 2009 Day 4: Samuel Maoz’s Lebanon
Golden Lion-winning film Lebanon is an anti-war film from the earliest stages of the film, and is tense in a claustrophobic type of way - think Das Boot.
