TIFF 2009 Day 8: Rachid Bouchareb’s London River

Caught a public screening with the wonderful Brenda Blethyn in attendance for Rachid Bouchareb’s London River. I liked the form, the insertion of television tube portions of the London attacks to help push the story over its couple of days period, and while I also thought there was some strong narrative work done in how the pair of worried parents come together, I didn’t much care for the additional items where a distraught mother brings her own misconceptions of the modern world to the table. The film preemed back in February at Berlin and has yet to be picked up here. Full review coming soon.