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Seagrass: Superb Canadian Drama Captures Dynamic of a Family in Free Fall

Seagrass: Superb Canadian Drama Captures Dynamic of a Family in Free Fall

By Liz Braun

ReviewJim SlotekFebruary 22, 2024Seagrass, Canadian feature debut, Canadian film, Meredith Hama-Brown, TIFF 23, Ally Maki, Luke Roberts, Sarah GadonComment

North of Normal: Mother-Daughter Tale Finds Hope in Love

By Kim Hughes

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 27, 2023North of Normal, Sarah Gadon, River Price-Maenpaa, Amanda Fix, Canadian film, TIFF 2022, Drama, Coming of age, Mother-daughter, Carly Stone, Robert CarlyleComment

Original-Cin Q&A: North of Normal Stars on Creating Family

Original-Cin Q&A: North of Normal Stars on Creating Family

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekJuly 27, 2023North of Normal, Sarah Gadon, Amanda Fix, River Price-Maenpaa, TIFF 2022, Canadian film, coming of age, Mother-daughter, Robert CarlyleComment

Original-Cin Q&A: All My Puny Sorrows' Director and Stars on the Miriam Toews Experience

Original-Cin Q&A: All My Puny Sorrows' Director and Stars on the Miriam Toews Experience

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekApril 13, 2022Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows, Michael McGowan, The right to die, Alison Pill), Sarah Gadon, Mare WinninghamComment

All My Puny Sorrows: 'To Be or Not to Be' Remains the Question in Ambitious Adaptation of Toews Novel

All My Puny Sorrows: 'To Be or Not to Be' Remains the Question in Ambitious Adaptation of Toews Novel

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekApril 12, 2022Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows, Michael McGowan, The right to die, Alison Pill), Sarah Gadon, Mare Winningham, Donal LogueComment

TIFF ’21 Capsule Reviews, Round Three

TIFF ’21 Capsule Reviews, Round Three

By Jim Slotek, Linda Barnard, Thom Ernst, Karen Gordon, Kim Hughes, Liam Lacey, and Bonnie Laufer

Black Bear: Aubrey Plaza plays with our heads in the woods, and uses her deadpan to best effect in intriguingly weird film

Black Bear: Aubrey Plaza plays with our heads in the woods, and uses her deadpan to best effect in intriguingly weird film

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekDecember 1, 2020Black Bear, Aubrey Plaza, Surreality, Lawrence Michael Levine, Ambiguity in film plots, Christopher Abbott, Sarah Gadon, Movies set in the woods, Movies about movies, Robert LeitzellComment

Soon-Yin Lee's Octavio is Dead!: Cross-dressing Lynchian ghost story is less than haunting

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekJune 21, 2018Soon-Yin Lee, Ghost story, LGBT issues, Rosanna Arquette, Raoul Max Trujillo, Sarah Gadon, Lynchian