Guy Maddin co-directed Rumours with Evan and Galen Johnson.
Rumours — by filmmakers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson — is one of seven Canadian films CBC News's critics picked out at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2024. After years marked by COVID closures and Hollywood strikes, 2024 was supposed to be the year the Toronto International Film Festival finally reopened its doors to the glitz and glam of fawning fans, red carpets and celebrities.
Here, CBC's film critics break down some of the films that wowed crowds — and which are worth your time.Young Werther, directed by Toronto's José Lourenço, is a modern retelling of the 18th century novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Inspired by his love of Iranian cinema, director Matthew Rankin collaborated with Iranian friends and the Winnipeg community to create an urban space that feels distant but familiar. The endless beige buildings and random turkeys bring to mind the bureaucratic madness of Terry Gilliam'sThe deadpan surreal quality reminds me of Iceland's master of the blackest of black comedies, Roy Andersson.
follows the real-life story of the selfsame bank-robbing terrorist organization that orchestrated the assassination of radio host Alan Berg in 1984.a racist novel intrinsically tied to a series of events from the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff, to the siege at Waco, to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. But through an intentionally spare, haunting style which director Justin Kurzel perfected inThe OrderRumours starts out as a fairly straight ahead political satire but then goes completely bonkers.
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