TIFF 2016 Preview: The Quirky Dramas
With the Toronto International Film Festival about to start, we take a look at the most anticipated films and the lesser known projects worth checking out at this year's festival.
Burn Your Maps
Jacob Tremblay (Room) returns to TIFF with a sweet but moving drama about a young boy who convinces himself he's a Mongolian goat herder.
Having been dealt some bad cards in life, his parents decide to take their son on a trip to Mongolia, maybe helping them to restrengthen their family bond. Naturally this turns into an unforgettable trip.
Buster's Mal Heart
Mr. Robot star Rami Malek is on the run from the authorities, alone on top of a cold snowy mountain. He sleeps in desolate vacation homes to survive the winters, rants about the Y2K bug on radio shows, and is scared by vivid images of him being lost and alone at sea.
Slowly we find out how this working family man and father turned into a lone drifter.
Carrie Pilby
Based on the best-selling novel, we follow Carrie Pilby, a brilliant 19-year-old Harvard graduate living in New York.
Disliking everything, she has no friends, job or social life, so her therapist gives her a 5-point plan to put her life back on track.
Colossal
Anne Hathaway leads this drama from quirky to something quite different.
Partying too hard and being thrown out by her boyfriend, Gloria moves back home and soon falls back to old habits. Then, one day, she finds out a monster going through Seoul is somehow connected to her own mental breakdown.
Paterson
Jim Jarmusch brings us the story of 'Paterson' (Adam Driver), a young bus driver and poet, with a pretty mundane life by the looks of it. Every day he goes through the same routine until he comes back home to his wife Laura.
A slow burner that might delight with its offbeat rhythm and poetry.
The Edge of Seventeen
Hailee Steinfeld and Woody Harrelson lead this quirky coming-of-age story, about a dramatic girl who can't handle her best friend dating her always perfect brother.
