With a handful of exceptions so far, festival organizers seem to have picked a remarkably bad year to whiff on the programming
After a weekend spent following the buzz, which had an air of try-hard exasperation to it, the only constant was a sense of shoulder-shrugging. Anna Kendrick’swas at one moment the breakout hit of the festival, the next a solid first-time directorial effort that landed like an HBO Sunday movie. Craig Gillespie’s finance-world comedyhas an enthusiastic David vs. Goliath spirit that will rile the rightfully aggrieved, but it is ultimately more angry than absorbing.
There have not been many, if any, out-and-out disasters, but also too few knockouts. At last year’s festival, all attention converged onand Rian Johnson’s. This past Saturday night, most of the press contingent seemed to be hoovering up free food and cocktails on the diminished party circuit. Which is where the conversation revolved around what, which on Saturday was awarded the top prize at the just-concluded Venice Film Festival.
Every year, there is a robust list of hot titles that TIFF should have played but didn’t, for whatever reason. But this year’s roster of missed opportunities – films playing the Venice, Telluride, and New York festivals – feels especially long. Not only Lanthimos’s sex-tinged comedy, but also David Fincher’s
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