Let’s do our best playful Jeff Wells impression where the blogger (and our buddy) fumes (or is simply dismayed) over some film missing at the Toronto Int. Film Festival.
First it was “Nowhere Boy,” the young John Lennon biopic by Sam Taylor-Wood that Wells seemed baffled over its TIFF absence (London Film Fest scored it instead).
And then lately it was Oliver Stone’s “South of the Border,” another MIA film at TIFF that he actually called and wrote organizers about because he was “stumped” as to why it wasn’t part of the line-up.
So we’ll throw our ring in the hat with perhaps even a better example. Neither of those films were at Cannes earlier this year, but Michel Gondry’s documentary, “L’epines Dans Le Couer,” (“The Thorn In the Heart”) — about his Aunt Suzette, a school teacher and obviously an important person in his life — is nowhere to be seen.
Even the Cannes-friendly, art-leaning New York Film Festival heads didn’t put it in their program.
Word from Cannes wasn’t entirely enthusiastic, but we’re still very curious. Where did this one go? After writing this last night, we found our answer buried in the London Film Festival news. It’ll hit the U.K. on the film festival circuit. Too bad, we were hoping to see it this Fall. Oscillioscope bought it earlier this year. Maybe a December release like they did with “Wendy & Lucy” perhaps?