Alpha review: Trauma film engages audiences with its unusual story
‘Alpha’ uses a familiar but mutated disease to explore a mother-daughter relationship and their past trauma.
Julia Ducournau
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Review: ‘Titane’ finds love against all odds (and oddities)
‘Titane’ is a provocative thriller about a volatile young woman who changes her identity after a series of incidents requires her to go on the run, where she makes a connection she never expected.
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Review: TIFF 2016: ‘Raw’ is an intense depiction of growing up (Includes first-hand account)
Graduating from high school and going to college is a rite of passage that is both terrifying and thrilling for most freshmen. In addition to a new level of learning and responsibility, they have to contend with a whole new social structure: new friends, new enemies and new rules. Living on campus brings with it the freedom of no parental supervision and the pitfalls of indulging without previously respected limits. But those are just the most general consequences of going away to school; the adjustments required vary for everyone and may be worse for some. In Raw, one teen girl discovers a whole new side of herself she wishes didn’t exist.
