TIFF11 INTERVIEW: Annemarie Jacir, writer/director of When I Saw You

While at the Toronto International Film Festival I had the pleasure of sitting down for a chat with Palestinian-born writer/director Annemarie Jacir about her sophomore effort When I Saw You. With the World Premiere a mere hour away, one could see the excitement and passion she had for the film and the North American stage it would be debuting on. Already with a Foreign Language Oscar selection from her native country for 2008’s Salt of This Sea, it wouldn’t be surprising to see this new film meeting the same fate.…

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TIFF12 REVIEW: Après mai [Something in the Air] [2012]

“I live in fantasy. When reality knocks I don’t open.” Sex, drugs, art, and revolution—such was the life of a young European in 1971. Or at least it was the life of a young director at 17 trying to reconcile the state of his country and his ambitions for the future. Taking us along for the rapid ascent into adulthood of a group of school-aged French radicals, Olivier Assayas‘ semi-autobiographical film Après mai [Something in the Air] is a slice of life at a time of wholesale liberation. These Trotskyites…

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