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STILL
Michael McGowan's Still is an exquisitely mounted and deeply affecting love story about one man's determination to create a suitable home for his ailing wife. Veterans James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold are nothing short of magnificent as they mine the subtext in the story about a couple with a deep and complicated past.
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MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN
A momentous collaboration between Film Circuit favourite director Deepa Mehta, one of Canada's most gifted and fearless filmmakers, and Salman Rushdie, one of the world’s most imaginative, controversial novelists, Midnight's Children marks a milestone in international cinema. It is also a luxurious feast of a film, bursting with colour, wit, and magic.
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QUARTET
One of the most celebrated actors in world cinema, multiple nominee and two-time Academy Award® winner Dustin Hoffman steps behind the camera for the first time with this charming adaptation of Ronald Harwood’s eponymous play. Having played a variety of roles spanning generations — from Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman to Jack Crabb in Little Big Man — it's fitting that Hoffman's first effort as director addresses the theme of aging, and does so with grace, gusto and wonderfully wry humour.
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A ROYAL AFFAIR
This sumptuous historical drama from writer-director Nikolaj Arcel (screenwriter of the original version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) chronicles the scandalous love triangle between a queen (Alicia Vikander), her German doctor (Mads Mikkelsen), and the mad King of Denmark (Mikkel Følsgaard).
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STORIES WE TELL
Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley's maiden voyage into the world of documentary, is at heart a personal essay on the intractable subjects of truth and memory. Using a combination of archival footage, still photos and testimonials in a captivating visual assemblage, Polley examines the disagreements and varying narratives of a single family as they look back on decades-old events.
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AMOUR
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and an Official Selection at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival®, master director Michael Haneke’s Amour draws on the extraordinary talents of two of the finest and most legendary performers in the history of French cinema — Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Conformist, Trois couleurs: Rouge) and Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima mon amour) — to create a powerful and moving portrait of an elderly couple struggling with their mortality.
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THE SAPPHIRES
What a delight The Sapphires is! Set at the height of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement and brimming with Motown hits, this portrait of a late 1960s girl group — Australia's answer to The Supremes — is a celebration of great music and triumph in the face of adversity. Based on the hit stage play by Tony Briggs, whose mother and three aunts formed the real-life singing quartet, The Sapphires is an effervescent, irresistible crowd-pleaser, with plenty of spunk and sass to go along with its fully earned sentiment.
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SONG FOR MARION
A touching and joyful story about overcoming despair by learning to live in the moment, Song for Marion gives us something to sing about. It also brings together two icons of British cinema, Vanessa Redgrave and Terence Stamp, and a new generation of talent represented by the effervescent and always impressive Gemma Arterton. When his beloved wife (Vanessa Redgrave) falls ill, a curmudgeonly retiree (Terence Stamp) must take her place in the local seniors' choir, in this hilarious and heartwarming comedy-drama.
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HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
Starring Bill Murray and Laura Linney and based on a true story, Hyde Park on Hudson depicts Franklin Delano Roosevelt's relationship with his distant cousin and soon-to-be mistress Margaret Suckley, over a weekend in 1939 at the president's country estate with the visiting King and Queen of England.
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INESCAPABLE
Three years ago, director Ruba Nadda won over Film Circuit audiences with the touching romance Cairo Time, winning the Film Circuit People’s Choice Awards. This year, she reteams with her Cairo Time star Alexander Siddig for the highly anticipated Inescapable, a gripping political thriller about a man forced by the disappearance of his daughter to return to the dangerous homeland he fled years before.
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REBELLE
Kidnapped and forcibly inducted into a rebel army, a young girl finds herself haunted by premonitory visions in this heartfelt and helplessly moving portrait of a child soldier from Canadian director Kim Nguyen. Rebelle is Canada’s 2012 Foreign Language Film submission to the Academy Awards® and is a must see.
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