Top 20 Alternative Picks for TIFF 2013: Jeremy Saulnier’s Blue Ruin

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Blue Ruin – Jeremy Saulnier

Section: Vanguard
Dates: Monday 9th, Wednesday 11th

Buzz: We’ve yet to see Jeremy Saulnier’s 2008 debut film (Murder Party), but we’re guessing that his follow-up item is a major step up (the type that lands future studio offers). Truly one of the most frantic, viscerally gory portraits albeit, deliriously pleasurable mayhem-filled noir comedy items to be launched on the festival circuit this year (the Blood Simple-esque sophomore film preemed in Cannes as a Directors’ Fortnight item where it picked up accolades, awards before heading to a Locarno showing) hits paydirt at almost every mounted sequence. RADiUS-TWC made this one of the first pick-ups of the Cannes ’13 and we think this is one of the best American Independent films of 2013.

The Gist: A beach bum finds his quiet life upended by dreadful news and sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of revenge. Proving an inept assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.

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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