All Special Presentations articles – Page 2
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‘The Convert’: Toronto Review
Lee Tamahori returns to New Zealand with this 1830s-set story of a man of God, played by Guy Pearce, and two warring tribes
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‘Les Indesirables’: Toronto Review
A wealthy mayor takes on a Parisian immigrant tenement in Ladj Ly’s highly-charged follow up to ‘Les Miserables’
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‘Unicorns’: Toronto Review
Sally El Hosaini’s follow-up to ‘The Swimmers’ is set in the world of ‘gaysian’ drag queen cabaret.
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‘Blueback’: Toronto Review
Mia Wasikowska and Radha Mitchell star in Robert Connolly’s thoughtful Australian environmental drama
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‘The Wonder’: Toronto Review
Florence Pugh impresses again in Sebastian Lelio’s adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s atmospheric novel
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‘All Quiet On The Western Front’: Toronto Review
Edward Berger explores the enduring horrors of war in his adpatation of the classic WWI novel
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‘Wendell & Wild’: Toronto Review
Henry Selick returns after a long absence with this distinctive, feverish, animated odyssey
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‘My Policeman’: Toronto Review
Emma Corrin and Harry Styles navigate a 1950s love triangle in Michael Grandage’s tasteful adaptation of Bethan Roberts’ novel
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‘The Menu’: Toronto Review
Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes anchor ’Succession’ director Mark Mylod’s caviar-black move to features
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‘Catherine Called Birdy’: Toronto Review
Lena Dunham gently adapts Karen Cushman’s novel about a young girl fighting to take control of her fate in 13th century England
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‘The King’s Horseman’: Toronto Review
Biyi Bandele’s bustling, vibrant final film is an adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s acclaimed anti-colonial play
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‘Brother’: Toronto Review
Clement Virgo’s supremely confident and affecting drama stars Aaron Pierre and Lamar Johnson as siblings growing up in Toronto in the 1980s
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‘Bros’: Toronto Review
Delightful rom-com from the Apatow stable focuses on the gay dating scene - with winning results
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‘Women Talking’: Toronto Review
Sarah Polley’s focused drama poses real questions about faith and forgiveness
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Features
Toronto 2022 preview: Screen’s guide to Gala and Special Presentations
The full line-up of world and international premieres in Toronto’s Gala and Special Presentations programmes, with details on each title including sales contacts.
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‘Charlotte’: Toronto Review
The troubled wartime life of artist Charlotte Salomon is animated in this graceful European production
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‘The Survivor’: Toronto Review
Barry Levinson casts Ben Foster as Harry Haft, a boxer traumatised by his experiences in a Nazi death camp
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‘Inexorable’: Toronto Review
Fabrice du Welz’s domestic thriller sees a stranger strike at the heart of the prosperous literally family headed by Benoit Poelvoorde
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‘The Middle Man’: Toronto Review
Bent Hamer’s intriguing drama may be set in America but it retains a distinctly Scandinavian accent
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‘Benediction’: Toronto Review
Terence Davies explores the impact of war on poet Siegfried Sassoon in this lyrical biopic