The Hollywood strikes might have brought a new look to this year’s fall festival season, with stars and red carpets at a minimum, but the line-ups are as stacked as ever, and, one might argue, suggest less focus on circus and more on cinema.
Venice gave us Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, David Fincher’s The Killer and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things. Telluride gave us Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers and Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers. And now the biggest of them all, at least when it comes to audience size, Toronto, lands this week with a long list of question marks. Here are the films worth keeping an eye on:
Wicked Little Letters
Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman in Wicked Little Letters. Photograph: Toronto film festivalIn a relatively short time, Olivia Colman has amassed the awards, respect and clout that most of her more established peers still hunger for, her name attached to a project an instant cause for intrigue. While most were unfair over her wrenching performance in Sam Mendes’ delicate two-hander Empire of Light (although she still nabbed a Golden Globe nomina...
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