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TIFF 2009 Day 8: Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass

Edward Norton gets a full workout, but I can’t help but think that this comedy panders to a more facile moviegoer.

The press screening was set at a nauseating 8:30 in the morning and to make matters worse, Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass fails to elevate the idea of having 2 for the price of 1 beyond the gimmick level – that is unless you consider a story-line of redneck misadventures and city folk learning a thing or two about Southern living as worthy film viewing. Edward Norton gets a full workout, but I can’t help but think that this comedy panders to a more facile moviegoer. Full review coming soon.

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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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