Tag Archives: #AIFF2023

#AIFF2023 Reviews: Close To You, I Used To Be Funny

September 23, 2023 flawintheiris

Close To You | Directed by Dominic Savage | Written by Savage and Elliot Page These were the final two films of my Atlantic International Film Festival for 2023, and, strangely, they were both shot in and around Toronto and both feature lead characters named Sam. It's an inscrutable omen, but I decided to review them… Read More

#AIFF2023 Reviews: Red Rooms, The Promised Land

September 20, 2023 flawintheiris

Red Rooms | Written and Directed by Pascal Plante A creepy outlier from Quebec, this is not the serial killer thriller you may have come to expect, nor an outright exploitation horror — more a creepy character study. Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) is a whiz with numbers and makes some coin from modelling, living alone in… Read More

#AIFF2023 Reviews: Anatomy Of A Fall, La Chimera, Fallen Leaves

September 18, 2023 flawintheiris

Anatomy Of A Fall | Directed by Justine Triet, written by Triet and Arthur Harari | Amazon Prime Sandra and Samuel (Sandra Hüller and Samuel Theis) have a difficult marriage — both are creative people but Sandra is a lot more successful as a novelist. We meet them on a fateful morning. Their son, who… Read More

Atlantic International Film Festival Preview #AIFF2023

September 13, 2023 flawintheiris

Great to see the return of the Atlantic International Film Festival for 2023, and an edition where the awkward branding of FIN has finally been dismissed. I understood what they were trying to do with it, to unite all the various elements of the festival's schedule through the year — including programs for kids and… Read More