Published on
Tuesday December 04, 2012
Goon
Alliance Films Liev Schreiber as the elder hockey enforcer in Goon.
Rachel Mwanza
Mongrel Media Newcomer Rachel Mwanza won an award at the Berlin Film Festival for her role as a child soldier in Rebelle (War Witch).
Sarah Polley with Super8cam
National Film Board Sarah Polley turned the documentary lens on her own family in Stories We Tell.
Sarah Polley’s searing family
portrait, a profanity-laced ode to hockey violence and Robert Pattinson in an
artsy leading role are three of the diverse films announced Tuesday as Canada’s Top Ten of 2012 by the
Toronto International Film Festival.
Stories We Tell, Goon and Cosmopolis,
respectively, take the honours among such notables as Rebelle (War
Witch) by Kim Nguyen, Midnight’s Children by Deepa Mehta and
Laurence Anyways by Xavier Dolan in a memorable year for Canadian film.
The 10 were chosen by seven panelists including filmmaker Jacob Tierney and
CBC’s Metro Morning host Matt Galloway.The event has been a showcase for Canadian film since 2001 and audiences will have an opportunity to see the selected movies on screen from Jan. 4 to 13 at Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox.
Polley, whose Stories We
Tell — a highly personal documentary-style film exploring family history —
has earned rave reviews since its Venice debut, will take part
in a special Mavericks question and answer session on Jan. 5.
Several of the films will also be presented at major theatres in Montreal,
Vancouver and Edmonton.Besides Stories We Tell, the other honourees are:
• Cosmopolis by veteran filmmaker David Cronenberg,
based on the novel by Don DeLillo, follows a young, amoral financial whiz kid
(Pattinson) during one particularly eventful day.
• The End of Time by Peter
Mettler (Gambling, Gods and LSD) is a documentary with an international
scope that explores the very concept of time. • Goon by Michael Dowse is a gritty comedy with graphically hilarious violence about a club bouncer who becomes an “enforcer” (Seann William Scott) for a minor league men’s hockey team.
• With Laurence Anyways, Quebec’s Cannes darling Xavier Dolan explores the tumultuous
relationship between a man who becomes a woman and a woman and their struggle to
overcome their differences.
• Midnight’s Children by Deepa Mehta is a historical
drama adapted by Salman Rushdie, based on his Booker Prize-winning novel, set at
the moment of India’s independence in 1947.
• My Awkward Sexual Adventure
by Sean Garrity follows a staid accountant in need of sexual experience who
turns to an exotic dancer for help to win back his girlfriend.
• Kim Nguyen’s Rebelle (War
Witch), chronicling the experiences of a child soldier in sub-Saharan
Africa, has earned rave reviews and is Canada’s nomination for the Best Foreign-Language Film at the Oscars.
• Still by Michael McGowan is
a story, based on true events, about an elderly man who risks the wrath of the
authorities when he tries to build a better home for his ailing spouse.
• Nisha Pahuja’s The World Before Her,
which earned Best Canadian Feature at Hot Docs, is a tale of two worlds for young Indian women, one a beauty
pageant, the other a fundamentalist Hindu boot camp.
Also named Tuesday were the Top 10 short films: Bydlo by Patrick
Bouchard; Chef de meute (Herd Leader) by Chloé Robichaud; Crackin’
Down Hard by Mike Clattenburg; Kaspar by Diane Obomsawin; Ne
crâne pas sois modeste (Keep a Modest Head) by Deco Dawson; Lingo
by Bahar Noorizadeh; Malody by Phillip Barker; Old Growth by
Tess Girard; Reflexions by Martin Thibaudeau; and Paparmane
(Wintergreen) by Joëlle Desjardins Paquette.
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