VIFF 2021 REVIEW | "The Girl and the Spider": a Compelling, Frustrating Puzzle Box

“The Girl and the Spider is a film that feels maddeningly opaque, even though it offers an intimate view behind the walls at daily life.”

Movies, Taylor BeaumontTaylor BeaumontOctober 27, 2021viff, VIFF 2021, Vancouver International Film Festival, film festival coverageComment

VIFF 2021 REVIEW | "The Worst Person in the World" a Mixed Bag of Chapters from the Life

“Reinsve, in a Cannes Best Actress-winning performance, embodies all the tumult of her character’s wild and wavering inhibitions, her angst filtered into pointed attacks as often as it is re-directed inwards.”

Movies, Taylor BeaumontTaylor BeaumontOctober 15, 2021film festival coverage, VIFF 2021, viff, joachim trier, viff 2021, the worst person in the world, renate reinsve, anders danielsen lie, 8 out of 12Comment

VIFF 2021 REVIEW | "Bergman Island" is a Simmering Summer Interlude

“Hansen-Løve’s film […] is a dramatically subdued affair, but one that reveals a flowering complexity through its multi-layered approach to storytelling and its humane ruminations on the islands we forge for creative fulfillment amongst personal disillusionment.”

Movies, Taylor BeaumontTaylor BeaumontOctober 5, 2021film festival coverage, VIFF, VIFF 2021, Vancouver International Film Festival, Tim Roth, vicky krieps, Mia Wasikowska, Mia Hansen-Løve, bergman island, viff 2021Comment

Now Attending: The Vancouver International Film Festival

“VIFF 2021 runs from October 1 to October 11, and as usual, the festival features a stacked lineup of some of the most buzz worthy and highly anticipated films of the year.”

Thomas Stoneham-JudgeOctober 1, 2021VIFF, VIFF 2021, Vancouver International Film Festival, viff 2021Comment