Author: Caitlin Abe Gokool

• Mothers on the Big Screen at TIFF

  

  This year, the Toronto International Film Festival is sharing stories about mothers from around the world, spanning genres from drama, to comedy, to horror. Here are 4 films I have seen so far at the film festival that deal, in some ways, with the mother’s journey, to maybe put a new film on your radar.…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 15, 2024

• Sad Jokes [TIFF 2024]

  

  If the title does not tell it all, Sad Jokes is anything but what an audience will look for when seeking a comedy. But for some, it will be exactly what was needed. Starring writer and director Fabian Stumm, Sad Jokes is entirely self-aware, as it follows filmmaker Joseph and his best-friend Sonya as they…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 12, 2024

• 5 Films from TIFF

  

  From world premieres to anniversary restorations and live music, the Toronto International Film Festival has so much to offer. There are so many great films to see, with origins from around the world. With opening weekend past, and films continuing to play their repeat screenings this week and into next weekend, here are 5 films…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 12, 2024

• The Courageous [TIFF 2024]

  

  Courageous is often discussed in relation to an absence of fear, rather than its true meaning regarding a power over fear. To children, the courageous are those who understand the world. The adults they see who are able to control the scary parts of their lives, and turn it into something manageable. For children, their…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 11, 2024

• Young Werther [TIFF 2024]

  

  Of all the films I thought I would see this year, a modern day retelling of a 1774 Goethe epistolary novel set in Toronto was not one of them, but I am glad it ended up being made anyways. Young Werther, based on the novel The Sorrows of Young Werthe by Johann Wolfgang Goethe is…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 10, 2024

• The Fire Inside [TIFF 2024]

  

  I am a tough person to talk to about biopics and sports films. In a world where it seems like there are already so many great ones out there, everything else often feels like it is just repeating what it knows works. I was curious what my reaction would be, given this genre fatigue, to…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 9, 2024

• Can I Get a Witness [TIFF 2024]

  

  Can I Get A Witness? is a fascinating film. Director and writer Ann Marie Fleming depicts a future world, not so far off from ours, where climate change has ended and global poverty has been eradicated. This is thanks to a global agreement that states that places restrictions on electricity use, travel, and population, and…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 8, 2024

• We Live In Time [TIFF 2024]

  

  How do we live when we know that each moment could be our last? How does our outlook on life change when our future plans are forcibly changed, or possibly no longer possibilities at all? Almut and Tobias face these questions in director John Crowley’s We Live In Time, following a couple throughout their lives…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 7, 2024

• Maldoror [Venice Film Festival 2024]

  

  A police procedural film has a lot to live up to, and the latest Belgian film from the Venice Film Festival, Maldoror, faces this uphill battle. In this latest police crime drama after two young girls go missing, a young new police recruit, Paul, joins the small unit, Maldoror, tracking a sex offender in hopes…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 3, 2024

• Planet B [Venice Film Festival 2024]

  

  I am a simple girl. If I see Adèle Exarchopoulos in the cast, I will watch. This worked out in my favour last year introducing me to Passages, and got me interested in her latest work, Planet B, directed by Aude Léa Rapin. The film is a science-fiction thriller film, and resembles a long episode…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  August 30, 2024