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.
A departure from his typical humanist dramas, the latest from writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda (After the Storm, Our Little Sister) is a murder mystery/courtroom drama that confronts the death penalty in Japan through a defense attorney played by Masaharu Fukuyama (Like Father, Like Son). The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw believes it’s a “captivating puzzle,” and Deborah Young of THR finds it “mysteriously beautiful.” However, Indiewire’s David Ehrlich sees it as a misstep for the director: “His conclusions are characteristically both compassionate and ambiguous, but the process of reaching them is far too labored for these thoughts to sink as deeply as they should, or as they have in so much of his previous work.”
Drama | Japan
Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda
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