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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.
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.
