Greg @ Toronto: Pt 2

September 11, 2008 on 3:41 pm | In - Greg, Film Festivals, Film |

Toronto Day 2

This morning I was greeted with the gem, Easy Virtue starring a breathtakingly gorgeous Jessica Biel as the American ‘floozy’ who invades a posh English family led by an icy matriarch Kristen Scott Thomas. It’s a campy face-off between the two wits — and in the middle, Ben Barnes plays the son/husband who sings his way through the fun. He will have a bright career post-Narnia!

(Easy Virtue)

Next up was another Kristen Scott Thomas starring film, I’ve Loved You So Long, a French redemptive tale of a woman who goes to jail, and then returns to her hometown to live with her estranged sister carrying the mysterious secret that forever changed the course of her life. Kristen is a lock for Best Actress.

(I’ve Loved You So Long)

Finally Uncertainty, directed by the Bee Season team, David Siegel and Scott McGehee starring Joseph Gordon Levitt and Lynn Collins. The film begins with a flip of a coin and then traces 2 different realities of the characters united by an underlying question referring to the title. One storyline revolved around a cell phone found in a taxi with the couple being chased around New York city by its criminal owners. The other story revolves around a 4th of July family dinner. In this one, the plot point sets off the film. It’s a disappointing film, though my hopes were not that high as the directors prior films also missed their mark.

(Uncertainty)

–Greg Krelenstein