TIFF is not a competitive festival, so many of the awards are "people's choice" awards (i.e. there is no competition section as there is at Cannes and there is no jury which oversees the selection of awards). This approach has helped solidify TIFF's reputation as a good barometer of what will be successful in a commercial run and they constantly reference films like "Slumdog Millionaire", "The King's Speech", "The Big Chill" and others as proof of this.
Also as per usual, my selection did not include any of the big winners (although I did see "Antiviral", which tied for Best Canadian First Feature.
Interestingly enough, the overall winner was "Silver Linings Playbook", by David O Russell. I don't recall anyone saying anything, good or bad, about this film, but that's not that unusual. Given that at its heart it's about a family with a passionate interest in the Philadelphia Eagles football team, it seems particularly apt given our mayor and his adventures over the past week.
The TIFF awards list is here.
My unofficial, unscientific take on what generated the most positive response in lines are the following films:
- "The Deep", 4 or 5 mentions (I wrote about this earlier)
- "Storm Surfers 3D", 2 or 3 mentions (a film about surfers searching for the biggest, baddest wave off the coast of Australia)
- "The Sapphires", 2 or 3 mentions (a film about a girl group in Australia in the 60's)
I have a few more comments on some of the other films that I saw over the past week and a half, which I will add later this week.
I have a few more comments on some of the other films that I saw over the past week and a half, which I will add later this week.
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