Toronto Film Festival Opens with Over 200 Films Including Disability Drama
The Toronto International Film Festival launched with a lineup of over 200 films, headlined by a drama addressing disability rights. Reviews highlighted sensitive performances in featured titles such as 'Faith,' though some critics noted narrative issues in the final act.
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Faith review – intense performances power startling and unsettling tale of mysterious suitor
Toronto film festival: Erin Doherty plays a happily single mother in a downbeat town courted by an enigmatic James McAvoy in this expertly taut drama Erin Doherty and James McAvoy both bring their A-game in this startling, involving movie from British writer-director Paul Andrew Williams, whose productivity and creativity continue to be an industry tonic. It’s an eerie mystery drama that Doherty and McAvoy perform with ferocious commitment. There’s something of Atom Egoyan or even M Night Shy...
By Peter Bradshaw
Read full article →‘Faith’ Review: Erin Doherty and James McAvoy Excel in a Sensitive Drama That Goes Off the Rails in the Final Reel
The actors play working-class Brits navigating the early stage of a relationship in this TIFF premiere from director Paul Andrew Williams.
By Leslie Felperin
Read full article →‘Faith’ Review: Erin Doherty Is Heartbreaking As A Mother On The Brink In Paul Andrew Williams’ Soulful Supernatural Drama – Toronto Film Festival
Most British directors track past the postwar redbrick council homes where the majority of lower working-class people live their relatively ordinary lives, untouched by crime, drugs and all the other cliches of life on the bottom rungs of the social ladder. These directors use such shots as shorthand, but Paul Andrew Williams — still something […]
By Damon Wise
Read full article →Toronto festival opens with over 200 films, major stars - Dhaka Tribune
Toronto festival opens with over 200 films, major stars Dhaka Tribune
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