Film Festival Reviews

Here are the Globe’s reviews for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival:

• The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

  Director: Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn

  Programme: Gala Presentations

Mini-Reviews

• A fost sau n-a fost? (12:08 East of Bucharest)

  Director: Corneliu Porumboiu

  Programme: Contemporary World Cinema

• 7 ans (7 years)

  Director: Jean-Pascal Hattu

  Programme: Discovery

• A Good Year

  Director: Ridley Scott

  Programme: Gala Presentations

• A Stone’s Throw

  Director: Camelia Frieberg

  Programme: Canada First!

• Efter Brylluppet (After the Wedding)

  Director: Susanne Bier

  Programme: Gala Presentations

• All The Boys Love Mandy Lane

  Director: Jonathan Levine

  Programme: Midnight Madness

• American Hardcore

  Director: Paul Rachman

  Programme: Real to Reel

• Away from Her

  Director: Sarah Polley

  Programme: Gala Presentations

• Babel

  Director: Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu

  Programme: Gala Presentations

• Bamako

  Director: Abderrahmane Sissako

  Programme: Visions

• Belle toujours

  Director: Manoel de Oliveira

  Programme: Visions

• Blindsight

  Director: Lucy Walker

  Programme: Real to Reel

• Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

  Director: Larry Charles

  Programme: Midinght Madness

• Den brysomme manned (The Bothersome Man)

  Director: Jens Lien

  Programme: Contemporary World Cinema

• Breaking and Entering

  Director: Anthony Minghella

  Programme: Gala Presentations

• Il Caimano (The Caiman)

  Director: Nanni Moretti

  Programme: Masters

• Candy

  Director: Neil Armfield

  Programme: Contemporary World Cinema

• Cashback

  Director: Sean Ellis

  Programme: Discovery

• Catch a Fire

  Director: Phillip Noyce

  Programme: Special Presentations

• Citizen Duane

  Director: Michael Mabbott

  Programme: Contemporary World Cinema

• Juventude em marcha (Colossal Youth)

  Director: Pedro Costa

  Programme: Visions

• Congorama

  Director: Philippe Falardeau

  Programme: Special Presentations

• Daratt

  Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

  Programme: Mozart’s Visionary Cinema: New Crowned Hope

• Election

  Director: Johnnie To

  Programme: Vanguard

• EMPz 4 Life

  Director: Allan King

  Programme: Masters

• End of the Line

  Director: Maurice Devereaux

  Programme: Canada First!

• Everything’s Gone Green

  Director: Paul Fox

  Programme: Canada First!

• Fido

  Director: Andrew Currie

  Programme: Canada First!

• Flandres (Flanders)

  Director: Bruno Dumont

  Programme: Visions

• Hamaca Paraguaya (Paraguayan Hammock)

  Director: Paz Encina

  Programme: Mozart’s Visionary Cinema: New Crowned Hope

• Hei Yan Quan (I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone)

  Director: Tsai Ming-liang

  Programme: Mozart’s Visionary Cinema: New Crowned Hope

• In Between Days

  Director: So Yong Kim

  Programme: Visions

• Iran: une révolution cinématographique

  Director: Nader Takmil Homayoun

  Programme: Real To Reel

• The Italian

  Director: Andrei Kravchuk

  Programme: Contemporary World Cinema

• Jindabyne

  Director: Ray Lawrence

  Programme: Special Presentations

• The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

  Director: Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn

  Programme: Gala Presentations

• King and the Clown

  Director: Lee Jun-ik

  Programme: Discovery

• L’Intouchable (The Untouchable)

  Director: Benoît Jacquot

  Programme: Masters

• La Coupure (Torn Apart)

  Director: Jean Châteauvert

  Programme: Canada First!

• La Haine (Hate)

  Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

  Programme: Dialogues: Talking With Pictures

• Kabul Express

  Director: Kabir Khan

  Programme: Special Presentations

• Khadak

  Director: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth

  Programme: Visions

• Let’s Get Lost

  Director: Bruce Weber

  Programme: Dialogues: Talking With Pictures

• Laitakaupungin Valot (Lights in the Dusk)

  Director: Aki Kaurismaki

  Programme: Masters

• The Lives of Others

  Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

  Programme: Special Presentations

• Macbeth

  Director: Geoffrey Wright

  Programme: Vanguard

• Offside

  Director: Jafar Panahi

  Programme: Contemporary World Cinema

• Paperback Hero

  Director: Peter Pearson

  Programme: Canadian Open Vault

• The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema

  Director: Sophie Fiennes

  Programme: Real To Reel

• Primo Levi’s Journey

  Director: Davide Ferrario

  Programme: Real To Reel

• Radiant City

  Director: Gary Burns, Jim Brown

  Programme: Real To Reel

• Red Road

  Director: Andrea Arnold

  Programme: Contemporary World Cinema

• Remembering Arthur

  Director: Martin Lavut

  Programme: Real To Reel

• Reprise

  Director: Joachim Trier

  Programme: Discovery

• Requiem

  Director: Hans-Christian Schmid

  Programme: Contemporary World Cinema

• The Silence

  Director: Cate Shortland

  Programme: Contemporary World Cinema

• Sleeping Dogs Lie

  Director: Bobcat Goldthwait

  Programme: Vanguard

• Sleeping Dogs

  Director: Terrance Odette

  Programme: Contemporary World Cinema

• Un Dimanche à Kigali (A Sunday in Kigali)

  Director: Robert Favreau

  Programme: Contemporary World Cinema

• Volver

  Director: Pedro Almodovar

  Programme: Gala Presentations

• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

  Director: Spike Lee

  Programme: Masters

• Feher tenyer (White Palms)

  Director: Szabolcs Hajdu

  Programme: Contemporary World Cinema

• The Wind That Shakes the Barley

  Director: Ken Loach

  Programme: Masters