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TIFF 2009 Viral Day 5: Soi Cheang’s Accident

After a stop at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, Soi Cheang stopped in Toronto for the international premiere to Accident. A film that came to the festival some a certain amount of clout, as one of the film’s producer is none other than Johnnie To, the picture sure looked good, but it came across as a film that embodies the mindset of it’s characters – it thinks it’s clever, but its only an illusionary facade.

Eric Lavallée

Published on September 18, 2009

After a stop at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, Soi Cheang stopped in Toronto for the international premiere to Accident. A film that came to the festival some a certain amount of clout, as one of the film’s producer is none other than Johnnie To, the picture sure looked good, but it came across as a film that embodies the mindset of it’s characters – it thinks it’s clever, but its only an illusionary facade as this was contrived and tone deaf. Here was some video of the pre-screening presentation.

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Eric Lavallée

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).