Fall Film Festival Recap: The Best & Worst of TIFF, Telluride and Venice
The fall film season kicks off each year with a trio of prestigious festivals: the just-completed Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Venice Film Festival (now in its 74th year), and the smaller but no less interesting Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. It is at these festivals where many of the year's Oscar contenders typically make their debuts. (Last year, five best picture nominees—including eventual winner Moonlight—had their world premieres at one of these festivals.) And this year's crop includes promising upcoming releases from Guillermo del Toro, Greta Gerwig, Aaron Sorkin, Joe Wright, and Armando Iannucci ... as well as more divisive films from the likes of Alexander Payne, George Clooney, and Louis CK.
Below, learn more about the critical response to these and other notable films (and TV shows) debuting at the three festivals in 2017.
Greta Gerwig’s first solo outing as writer-director is a “film bursting with warmth, wit and melancholy that manages to seem fresh and unexpected despite the overly stacked nature of the subgenre,” writes Benjamin Lee of The Guardian. The coming-of-age story stars Saoirse Ronan as Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson, a high school senior determined to escape 2002 Sacramento, California. Screen Daily’s Allan Hunter feels that “every role has been carefully cast and every performer given a moment to shine.” Those actors include Laurie Metcalf as Lady Bird’s mom, Tracy Letts as her dad and Lucas Hedges) and Timothée Chalamet as her love interests. Now one of 2017's highest-scoring films, Lady Bird opens in theaters on November 10th.
Drama/Comedy | USA
Directed by Greta Gerwig
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