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The Best Films of the Fall Festivals: From ‘Babygirl’ to Mike Leigh to Pedro Almodóvar
Of more than 200 new movies that premiered over the past few weeks, Variety's critics pick the top 19 seen at the Venice, Telluride and Toronto fests.
Meanwhile, TIFF organizers relaxed the rules on premiere status — a smart move, since many festgoers still view Toronto as the one-stop spot to catch the year’s best offerings, whether brand new or the buzziest titles from earlier in the festival calendar (like Palme d’Or winner “Anora” and Annecy breakout “Memoir of a Snail”). Image Credit: Indie Sales Festivals: Venice, Toronto Following Oscar-nominated “Ajami,” Palestinian filmmaker Scandar Copti’s Israel-set second feature is a piercing, realistic family drama, the inflection points of which reveal deep cultural and political dimensions surrounding gender and ethnicity. Image Credit: Courtesy of Jaclyn Martinez/Harvest Film Ltd. Festivals: Venice, Toronto Taking on Jim Crace’s historical novel about a farming community undone by parochial dis- trust and encroaching capitalism, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s vigorous, yeasty period piece — her first work in English — occasionally loses the thread of its sprawling ensemble narrative, but transfixes as a whole-sackcloth immersion into another time and place.
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