Transmissions from TIFF 2023: The Boy and The Heron, North Star, Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World, and The Dead Don’t Hurt

In our first set of reviews from this years Toronto International Film Festival, we look at the latest from Hayao Miyazaki, Radu Jude, Viggo Mortensen, and the directorial debut of Kristen Scott Thomas

PAST LIVES is a unique spin on a universal question

Past Lives, a feature debut for writer/director Celine Song, opens with a simple premise. The camera focuses on a trio, a woman sitting in the middle of two men. Off-camera, voices try to puzzle out their connections: is this a couple and a friend? Siblings and a couple? Are any of the three romantically entangled at all? It’s a hard one, they muse.

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