The 29th edition of the TIFF, like every other festival, has suffered from content bloat over the years, but scanning the schedule carefully is worth the effort. A good place to start is usually the World Focus section; this category doesn¡¯t require that films be exclusive to TIFF, so it can draw from a range films that are currently hot on the festival circuit.
Nocturama (World Focus)
Top of the list is ¡°Nocturama¡± by French director Bertrand Bonello, who made 2011¡¯s ¡°House of Tolerance,¡± an alternately brutal and mesmerizing look at a fin de siecle Parisian bordello. ¡°Nocturama,¡± which just premiered to controversy at the Toronto Film Festival and won an award at San Sebastian, is kind of like ¡°Room,¡± in that you¡¯re better off not knowing too much about it because it delivers a mean plot-line sucker punch.
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