The latest Rian Johnson enigmas film is among the world’s primary people who will illuminate the 50e Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in September.
Wake Up Dead Man : A Knives Out Mysterywritten and directed by Johnson, sees Daniel Craig resume his role of the eccentric detective Benoit Blanc, alongside a distribution including Josh O’Connor, Josh Brolin and Mila Kunis. The third chapter of the series Knives Out will be broadcast by Netflix in December.
The new psychological thriller of the Toronto filmmaker Clement Virgo (director of the acclaim Brothers) will also have its world premiere in Toronto. This Canado-Belgian co-production is inspired by the book Steal Away Homepublished in 2017, which tells the true story of Cecelia Reynolds, a 15 -year -old slave who fled in Canada. Steal Away features Angouria Rice and Mallori Johnson in the roles of two adolescent girls whose intense link breaks the illusions of their protected world.
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The director Clement Virgo
Among the other special presentations announced Wednesday by the TIFF, let us quote the dramatic comedy on the First World War The Choral by Nicholas Hytner and the biographical film on Franz Kafka Franz d’Agnieszka Holland.
Also launched in Toronto, Rental Familyof the Japanese screenwriter and director Mitsuyo Miyazaki (also known as Hikari), features Brendan Fraser in the role of an actor in difficulty in Tokyo who begins to work for a society that praises him for lining roles in the life of his customers.
The survival drama The Lost Bus From Paul Greanggrass, inspired by real facts, features Matthew McConaughey in the role of a driver who has to lead a bus full of children safely through the 2018 Camp Fire fire, which has become the deadliest fire in the history of California.
Dramatic comedy Roofman Derek Cianfrance, with Channing Tatum, tells the true story of the fugitive Jeffrey Manchester, a former American army ranger who has robbed McDonald’s restaurants by piercing holes in their roofs and escaped the police for six months while living in a toys “R” store.
Homebound De Neeraj Ghaywan, meanwhile, follows two childhood friends in a village in northern India, the objective of joining the police forces is compromised by an increasing disillusionment which puts their link to Rude.
The Toronto festival will take place from September 4 to 14 and will open with John Candy : I Like Mea documentary on the late Canadian humorist.