After proving that he is still one of the most powerful directors working today with last year’s, a semiautobiographical tale about his own childhood in 1950s Arizona. TIFF scored a huge coup by securing the film’s world premiere – the first time that Spielberg has debuted a film in Toronto – and interest is sky-high as to how the impressive cast will recreate their own director’s childhood memories.
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson reteam for The Banshees Of Inisherin, about two lifelong friends who reach an impasse, with alarming consequences for both.Those who appreciated the odd couple pairing of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson way back 2008′s, another vicious black comedy from director Martin McDonagh. And those who felt the British-Irish director had not entirely conquered the American heartland inwill be pleased to see him return across the Atlantic.
Ruben Östlund’s latest Palme d’Or–winning satire explores hypocrisy, greed, and thirst for power amongst the idle rich in Triangle of Sadness.Ruben Ostlund’s films make me deliciously nervous. He’s especially good at pressing on the delicate Achilles tendons of the privileged . The description of his latest, which won the Palme d’Or in May, has me aflutter: Self-obsessed celebrity models take a luxury cruise for the super-rich piloted by a louche captain who thinks he’s a Marxist.