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Invited to the perfect trifecta of autumn film festivals with invites at Venice, Telluride and TIFF, I can't wait to sink my teeth in Villeneuve's latest film as it appears to be a departure of sorts: the filmmaker working from adapted material.

In a couple of hours from now, it's expected that TIFF will read off Denis Villeneuve's Incendies as one of the Canadian films selected for the fest. Not ready for Cannes, where he showed his films Next Floor (short) and Polytechnique in back to back years, Venice Film Festival's Venice Days sidebar plays host to the film's world premiere.

Ask me who Canada's best working filmmaker is at the moment, and I'd make a convincing argument that it isn't Guy Maddin, David Cronenberg or Atom Egoyan, but instead, a French Canadian filmmaker who wasn't at Cannes this year but will be in Venice. I'd bestow the honor on Denis Villeneuve from August 32nd on Earth (1998) and Maelström (2000) fame, and most recently 2008's short film Next Floor and the sobering, Polytechnique (2009) and his fourth feature film, Incendies (Scorched) will be competing in the Venice Days sidebar section which regularly turns out some gems.

Here's the press release for the Venice Days selections folks: lots of names we know!

It's one of those years where the great Atom Egoyan's contribution to cinema is totally insignificant (Adoration received 2 noms) and where Denis Villeneuve's Polytechnique, in my books the best Canadian film of the year, grabbed the high count total of eleven nominations for the 30th Genie Awards.