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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #11. Tetsuya Nakashima’s Confessions

Featured at the New York Asian Film Festival, this had richter scale type implications back home in Japan. Might be the revenge film of the year.
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#11. Confessions

Director: This Tetsuya Nakashima
Cast: Takako Matsu, Yoshino Kimura, Masaki Okada, Yukito Nishii, Kaoru Fujiwara, Ai Hashimoto
Distributor: Rights Available.

Buzz: Featured at the New York Asian Film Festival, this had richter scale type implications back home in Japan. Might be the revenge film of the year.

The Gist: Tetsuya Nakashima’s Confessions is one of Japan’s most important films of the year. A stylized mixture of cruelty and compassion, the film spins the dark tale of vengeance of a teacher whose little daughter has been killed by two of her students in seventh grade.

TIFF Schedule: Friday September 17 9:00:00 PM RYERSON
Saturday September 18 5:30:00 PM SCOTIABANK THEATRE 11
Sunday September 19 9:30:00 AM SCOTIABANK THEATRE 11

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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