It is never a normal “opening night” when it comes to the Toronto Film Festival which is offering numerous films including the much anticipated Hayao Miyizaki film The Boy And The Heron…
However tonight’s films by two of the best actors in the business augur well even as their fellow actors are sidelined by the SAG/AFTRA strike that is sadly keeping many of them away from Toronto this year. Both these films are for sale, and both worthy of finding a great distributor.North Star
which she not only directed and wrote, but also co-stars in. In real life Thomas’ own father, a Royal Navy Pilot was killed in action when she was just six. The same nearly exact thing also happened to her stepfather when she was twelve. Despite that life-altering event, her mother married for a third time, and that is where her directorial debut begins.
They all meet up for a three day wedding weekend at their childhood home as their mother prepares to marry husband #3, a good soul . Past secrets and grievances come up as they all gather, and eventually the dysfunction nearly gets the best of them, but this is not a broad comedy in any sense. Thomas is a fan of French movies, Woody Allen’sand others that are smart examples of the genre.
and the shorthand between them pays off. Miller is a real livewire here and completely delightful and fun to watch. Beecham is the anchor and balances perfectly off her globe trotting sisters. The men are fine too but basically objects not meant to get in the way of the real story Thomas wants to tell. And she tells it very well indeed.
The film is poignantly dedicated in memory of Thomas’ “two fathers” Lt. Cdr Simon Thomas RN and Cdr Simon Idiens RN.
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