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Aug 6 2009
Egoyan’s Chloe to world premiere at Toronto
5 August, 2009 | Updated: 5 August, 2009 11:52 pm | By Denis Seguin
Atom Egoyan’s psychological drama Chloe will make its world premiere
at the Toronto International Film Festival while the North American
premiere of Jean-Marc Vallée’s period biopic The Young Victoria
will close the festival.
The two were among several Canadian titles added to the TIFF09 line-up
of world and North American premieres, including new films from Peter
Raymont, Peter Mettler and Jacob Tierney.
Among the higher profile North American premieres was Terry Gilliam’s
Canada-UK coproduction The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, featuring
the last screen appearance of Heath Ledger; Bernard Ã?mond’s La
Donation; and Vic Sarin’s Canada-Ireland co-production A Shine Of
Rainbows.
World premieres screening as Special Presentations include Jacob
Tierney’s The Trotsky, starring Jay Baruchel, Ruba Nadda’s Cairo Time,
and Peter Stebbings’ Defendor, starring Woody Harrelson. World
premieres in the Contemporary World Cinema selection include Rob
Stefaniuk’s rock’n’roll vampire comedy Suck, featuring Iggy Pop, Alice
Copper and Henry Rollins; Gary Yates’ High Life, Carl Bessai’s Cole,
and Bruce Sweeney’s Excited.
Screening in the Real To Reel sidebar, noted documentarian Raymont
presents Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould while his peer
Peter Mettler, best-known for his cinematography on Manufactured
Landscapes, presents another giant-scale project, Petropolis: Aerial
Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands.
The Canada First! sidebar features several world premieres including
Sook-Yin Lee’s directorial debut Year Of The Carnivore, Alexandre
Franchi’s The Wild Hunt, Machotaildrop by Corey Adams and Alex Craig,
and George Ryga’s Hungry Hills, by Rob King.
As well Cannes sensation Xavier Dolan will present the English-Canada
premiere of I Killed My Mother (J’ai Tué Ma Mère).