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July 27 - August 3,2003 |
Arcand's Barbarians invade Toronto
International Film Festival unveils preliminary programme line-up from Quebec to Brazil
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2003-07-06
Denys Arcand's Les Invasions Barbares (The Barbarian Invasions), which won the Best Screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival, will be opening the 28th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.
"Toronto has always been good to me," said Quebec native Arcand during last week's press conference at the Carlu in Toronto. "I've always been treated well here. I'm very happy that my film is here."
Les Invasions Barbares centres on Sebastian (Stephane Rousseau) who is called home from London, England to Montreal to stay with his father, Remy (Remy Girard) who is dying of cancer. Despite the strained relationship between father and son, Sebastian does everything possible to make his father's final weeks the best of his life.
Also announced at the conference was the world premiere of Robert Altman's The Company, which stars Canadian Neve Campbell as a gifted dancer on the verge of becoming a principal with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. The film also stars James Franco and Malcolm McDowell.
Another gala is the Lars von Trier's much-anticipated Dogville, which divided the critics at Cannes. Starring Nicole Kidman and Paul Bettamy, the film - shot entirely on a soundstage - is set in the 1930s and follows the inhabitants of an American village during the Depression as a stranger on the run from gangsters disrupts their lives.
Aside from Les Invasions Barbares, the only other Canadian movie announced is Emile Gaudreault's Mambo Italiano, based on Steve Galluccio's hit stage play. The story centres on Angelo Barberini (Luke Kirby) who lives in Montreal with his Italian parents (Paul Sorvino, Ginette Reno). Without consulting his boyfriend (Peter Miller), Angelo decides to tell his parents that he's gay, and that's when all hell breaks loose.
Two films have been confirmed for the festival's Masters programme: John Sayles' Casa de los babys, which stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daryl Hannah, Rita Moreno and Marcia Gay Harden as American women travelling to an unnamed South American country to adopt children; and Jacques Rivette's L'histoire de Marie et Julien, about a man (Jerzy Radziwilowicz) who blackmails a Madame X, while an ex-lover enters his life again. Also stars Emmanuele Beart and Anne Brochet.
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