More on Toronto’s Film Sidebars
by Andre Soares
Toronto Film Festival - The Sequel:
Among the films to be screened at the "Special Presentations" sidebar are Zabou Breitman’s L’ Homme de sa vie / The Man of My Life (France), which revolves around the unlikely friendship that develops between a bourgeois, happily married man (Bernard Campan) and a free-spirited gay man (Charles Berling) during a summer vacation in the French countryside; Eytan Fox’s The Bubble (Israel) — the title refers to cosmopolitan Tel Aviv — which depicts the dramatic changes in the lives of three roommates when one of them (played by Ohad Knoller of Yossy & Jagger) 
begins an affair with a Palestinian (Fox co-wrote the screenplay with partner Gal Uchovsky); and Paris, je t’aime (France), a compilation film directed by a number of international names, including Isabel Coixet, Walter Salles, Gérard Depardieu, Sylvain Chomet, Alfonso Cuarón, Wes Craven, and Richard LaGravenese.
Also included in the "Special Presentations" sidebar are a series of classic Norman McLaren shorts, including Pas de deux (1968), Neighbours (1952), and La Merle (1958).
The "Gala Presentations" sidebar includes Steven Zaillian’s much-delayed All the King’s Men (USA), a remake of the 1949 Academy Award-winning film, starring Sean Penn in the old Broderick Crawford role (based on Louisiana governor Huey Long) of an ambitious and corrupt politician in the American South; Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Best Director winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Babel (USA), about the lack of interconnectedness between human beings — including Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, and Gael García Bernal — 
in our dysfunctional world (the screenplay was written by frequent Iñárritu collaborator Guillermo Arriaga); and Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver (Spain), which portrays the relationship between two sisters (Penélope Cruz and Lola Dueñas) and the ghost of their mother (Almodóvar veteran Carmen Maura). Volver won an ensemble Best Actress Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, while Almodóvar took the Best Screenplay Award.
The "Masters" sidebar will showcase films by the likes of Alain Resnais (Cœurs / Private Fears in Public Places), Nanni Moretti (Il Caimano / The Caiman), Margarethe von Trotta (Ich bin die Andere / I Am the Other Woman), Gianni Amelio (La Stella che non c’è / The Missing Star), Volker Schlöndorff (STRAJK - Die Heldin von Danzig / STRIKE), Werner Herzog (Rescue Dawn), and Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley).
The full list of films to be screened at this year’s edition of the Toronto International Film Festival can be found here.
Toronto Film Festival’s “Contemporary World Cinema”
Sarajevo Film Festival 2006 Awards
Pre-Code Series: Strange Interlude
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