‘Farewell My Concubine’ Uncut Restoration, Last Godard Film Among Toronto’s Classics, Wavelength Sections
variety.comNaman Ramachandran A 4K uncut restoration of Chen Kaige’s 1993 Palme d’Or winner “Farewell My Concubine” is a highlight of the Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) Classics strand while Jean-Luc Godard’s last film will feature in Wavelengths.
The Classics strand also includes Canadian producer-director Brigitte Berman’s Oscar-winning feature documentary “Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got” (1985), portraying the life of the clarinettist and bandleader, and, after decades of oblivion Jacques Rivette’s New Wave classic “L’amour fou” (1969), whose original celluloid elements were damaged in a fire.
A 50th anniversary screening of “Touki Bouki” (1973), from Sengal’s Djibril Diop Mambéty and Ousmane Sembène’s “Xala” (1975), presented in 4K, complete the program.
Classics is curated by Robyn Citizen, director of programming and platform lead, with contributions from Andréa Picard. The Wavelengths strand has 12 feature films and 19 shorts, as well as a suite of four restored early films by Chantal Akerman and “Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars,” the last film from the legendary Jean-Luc Godard, which premiered at Cannes earlier this year.
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