From Colman Domingo’s impressive double feature to Jodie Foster’s ace return to the screen, here’s our look back at the best acting we saw at this year’s TIFF.
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Netflix/A24/Focus FeaturesIt’s been a challenging year for the Toronto International Film Festival. The energy felt particularly muted, largely thanks to the SAG and WGA strikes, which prevented the large swathes of talent that typically swarm the Canadian city from coming. Instead, big-time premieres had a strange quiet to them—though that didn’t stop audiences from coming out in droves.Beyond the AMPTP-induced controversies, this year’s TIFF
A particular theme has emerged at the Toronto International Film Festival, where several of this year's movies paint portraits of women artists forced to grapple with how they and their art are perceived by society.
Films from Quebec have seen critical and commercial success over the years, and while language plays a role, filmmakers in the province also cite creative freedoms and a star system that gives French language films a leg up in Canada.