Jojo Rabbit took the top TIFF prize, but Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story and Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite have award season hopes of their own
A comedy set during World War II in which its director also stars as an imaginary friend version of Hitler,was one of the more divisive films among the critics at the Toronto Film Festival—and now one of the festival’s biggest winners. On Sunday TIFF announced thatis the winner of this year’s People’s Choice Awards, one of the most prominent awards of the festival and, crucially, one that can often be an early step toward awards season victory.
But when he discovers that his mother has hidden a young Jewish girl in their attic, his worldview begins to shift dramatically.sketch, maybe—butis too polite to stuff real epithets into its characters’ mouths, or to brandish any real sense of violence. It’s too cute, too wedded to things eventually working out, to grapple with realities like mass extermination or the death camps—you know, buzzkills.
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