Toronto Film Festival 2007 – Visions and Vanguard Sidebars
Toronto Film Festival 2007 – Visions and Vanguard Sidebars
Visions
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS Cristian Mungiu, Romania
Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival, this is the first film in the series Tales from the Golden Age – a subjective history of communism in Romania told through its urban legends – and sees two university roommates in a desperate situation after one becomes pregnant and decides to seek out an illegal abortion.
L’AMOUR CACHÉ Alessandro Capone, Italy/Luxembourg/Belgium
Committed to a psychiatric clinic after three suicide attempts, Danielle (Isabelle Huppert) views her daughter as a hostile and intrusive enemy. However, through an analyst’s probing, Danielle finally voices the reality of her isolated childhood and the reason behind her self-loathing and hatred of motherhood.
Vanguard
BOY A John Crowley, UK
Jack (Andrew Garfield) has spent most of his young life in juvenile institutions for the murder of another child. He is released into the world, with only his care worker (Peter Mullan) to guide him. Jack is given a new name, a new job, a new home and a new life. But anonymity is both a blessing and a curse as Jack has to contend with keeping his past and the monstrous crime he committed as a minor, from the people he meets.
THE EXODUS Pang Ho-cheung, Hong Kong
Beat cop Jim (Simon Yam) uncovers a secret worldwide network of women conspiring to exterminate men. His investigation is soon thwarted with the organization’s infiltration into the police force and soon Jim can no longer trust anyone, including his family.
MISTER LONELY Harmony Korine, UK/France/Ireland/USA
Harmony Korine (GUMMO) returns with a story about a lonely Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) in Paris who falls for a Marilyn Monroe look-alike (Samantha Morton, ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE) and moves to a commune of impersonators. Meanwhile, in parallel, a miracle happens in a Latin American jungle.
SAD VACATION Aoyama Shinji, Japan
One night, a driver named Kenji (Tadanobu Asano, MONGOL), recognizes one of his passengers as his own mother who abandoned him as an adolescent. As seductively charming as she is loving, Kenji surrenders to dark undercurrents of feeling provoked by inexorable family ties and is forced to face both his past and his future.
SMILEY FACE Gregg Araki, USA
Jane F (Anna Faris), unsuccessful slacker actress, is having a bad day. Her misadventures begin when she treats herself to a batch of cupcakes left unattended by her psycho roommate (Danny Masterson) that prove not as innocent as they appear. Soon she is trying to cross town so she can repay an unforgiving drug dealer (Adam Brody), attend an audition, and somehow replace the precious cupcakes.
WHITE LIES, BLACK SHEEP James Spooner, USA
This is the first fiction film from the director of the landmark documentary AFRO-PUNK. A successful young black promoter (Ayindé Howell) is fully entrenched in the New York indie-rock world scene. He begins to find that his chosen community, the white rock world, only seems to run smoothly for white rockers. A series of events force him to recognize that his friends exoticize him and are in denial of his blackness.
Toronto Film Festival 2007 – Awards
Toronto Film Festival 2007 Award Winners – Article
Toronto Film Festival 2007 – Contemporary World Cinema
Toronto Film Festival 2007 – Gala Screenings, Masters, Special Presentations
Toronto Film Festival 2007 Real to Reel Documentary Line-Up
San Sebastian Film Festival 2007 – Zabaltegi (New Directors) Sidebar
Monsters, Creeps, Ghouls, Faceless Fiends, Alien Pods, and Their Buds at the American Cinematheque
Montreal World Film Festival 2007 – First Films World Competition
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