Film fests such as the Toronto Int. Film Festival afford us the best of opportunities to get instantly familiar with new faces in the world of cinema. With last week’s The Conversation, I gave you a rundown of the talent behind the camera with the 2015 Tiff Top Ten New Voices. Today, we look back at the best performances from fresh and relatively new crop of actors and actresses. Almost evenly split genderwise, we’ll surely look back on these early performances from these youthful players as the moment where they received their big break and if they’re not familiar now, they surely will be in the coming years. In deliberating this top ten list, I focused on offerings either unique to the festival or near concurrent premieres in Locarno and Venice.
#10. Karelle Tremblay – Les Etres Chers
After Podz’s Miraculum (2013) Stefan Miljevic’s Amsterdam (2013) and Mathieu Denis’ Corbo...
#10. Karelle Tremblay – Les Etres Chers
After Podz’s Miraculum (2013) Stefan Miljevic’s Amsterdam (2013) and Mathieu Denis’ Corbo...
- 10/19/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Xavier Dolan tied contemporaries Philippe Falardeau and Denis Villeneuve by winning his second Best Feature award at the 17th annual Jutra Awards. Quebec’s answer to the Oscars was a rather suspense-less affair as Mommy claimed nine (plus the top box office award honor) awards winning in all major categories with the exclusion of Best Supporting Actor category win, which would only end up going to Dolan’s other nominated film, Tom at the Farm. Pierre-Yves Cardinal was sublime in his predatory type role and as was the case for several nominees, was hard at work on another project and therefore not on hand for trophyware. Ricardo Trogi’s throwback to awkward teen years tale 1987 did win a trio of awards, but if there were any surprises in the Dolan camp it was the acceptance speeches: Dolan delivered a keynote speech type quality for the last win of the night...
- 3/16/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Miraculum
Written by Gabriel Sabourin
Directed by Daniel Grou
Canada, 2014
Daniel Grou (affectionately known as Podz by the Quebec public) got his start in television, directing a number of very successful shows for Radio-Canada, the national channel. In 2010 he made his cinematic debut with two films and has since been working exclusively for the big screen. His most recent film, Miraculum, finds it’s aesthetic routes in television though, often feeling more like a creaky pilot than a full fledged film. While Podz and his actors give it their all in this film, they are let down by the script which is trite, obvious and poorly constructed.
Films about intersecting fates rarely gel very well. For every Magnolia (which is flawed, but doesn’t collapse under the weight of it’s own hubris) there are dozens of copycat films that are varying degrees of unbearable. The narrative just never comes together,...
Written by Gabriel Sabourin
Directed by Daniel Grou
Canada, 2014
Daniel Grou (affectionately known as Podz by the Quebec public) got his start in television, directing a number of very successful shows for Radio-Canada, the national channel. In 2010 he made his cinematic debut with two films and has since been working exclusively for the big screen. His most recent film, Miraculum, finds it’s aesthetic routes in television though, often feeling more like a creaky pilot than a full fledged film. While Podz and his actors give it their all in this film, they are let down by the script which is trite, obvious and poorly constructed.
Films about intersecting fates rarely gel very well. For every Magnolia (which is flawed, but doesn’t collapse under the weight of it’s own hubris) there are dozens of copycat films that are varying degrees of unbearable. The narrative just never comes together,...
- 2/24/2015
- by Justine Smith
- SoundOnSight
The ninth annual promotional showcase runs during the Cannes market and features competition entries from David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan and Xavier Dolan.
The films in Perspective Canada are: Ricardo Trogi’s 1987; Adam Macdonald’s Backcountry; Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart’s I Put A Hit On You; Denis Côté’s Joy Of Man’s Desiring; Jaret Belliveau’s Kung Fu Elliot; Matthew Komalchuk’s Lawrence & Holloman; David Cronenberg’s Map To The Stars; and Daniel Grou (Podz)’s Miraculum.
The roster continues with Xavier Dolan’s Mommy; Craig Goodwill’s Patch Town; Deanne Foley’s Relative Happiness; Yan Lanouette Turgeon’s Rock Paper Scissors; Atom Egoyan’s The Captive; Pat Kiely’s Three Night Stand; Andrew Huculiak’s Violent; and Stéphane Lafleur’s Directors’ Fortnight entry Tu Dors Nicole (You’re Sleeping Nicole).
The Telefilm line-up includes the Not Short On Talent short film spotlight.
“Cannes is also vital in terms of deal making,” said Telefilm...
The films in Perspective Canada are: Ricardo Trogi’s 1987; Adam Macdonald’s Backcountry; Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart’s I Put A Hit On You; Denis Côté’s Joy Of Man’s Desiring; Jaret Belliveau’s Kung Fu Elliot; Matthew Komalchuk’s Lawrence & Holloman; David Cronenberg’s Map To The Stars; and Daniel Grou (Podz)’s Miraculum.
The roster continues with Xavier Dolan’s Mommy; Craig Goodwill’s Patch Town; Deanne Foley’s Relative Happiness; Yan Lanouette Turgeon’s Rock Paper Scissors; Atom Egoyan’s The Captive; Pat Kiely’s Three Night Stand; Andrew Huculiak’s Violent; and Stéphane Lafleur’s Directors’ Fortnight entry Tu Dors Nicole (You’re Sleeping Nicole).
The Telefilm line-up includes the Not Short On Talent short film spotlight.
“Cannes is also vital in terms of deal making,” said Telefilm...
- 5/5/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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