INCEPTION (USA/UK 2010) ****
Directed by Christopher Nolan

I would like to think that I helped Toronto discover Christopher Nolan through Britpics, a week of British film that I helped programmed some 10 years back.  Britpics brought the unknown Nolan’s impressive black-and-white, dark drama FOLLOWING to Toronto.  That was the only chance of seeing that film here on the large screen.

RESTREPO (USA 2010) ****
Directed by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger

At the start of RESTREPO, the feel of the films RENACTED and THE HURT LOCKER immediately comes to life.  But as RESTREPO progresses, the audience realizes that there is one major difference between this one and the other two – what occurs in RESTREPO is real while the other 2 are fictitious.

SWEETGRASS (UK/USA/France 2009) ***1/2
Recorded by Lucien Castaing-Taylor

In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme northwest of the United States. It was a journey of almost 300 kilometers through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges - a journey brimming with challenges. The aging shepherds do their very best to keep the hundreds of sheep together; the panoramic high mountains are teeming with hungry wolves and grizzly bears. 

MR NOBODY (Fr/Ger/Belg/Can 2009) ***
Directed by Jaco Van Dormael

It has been more than 10 years since director Jaco Van Dormael graced audiences with a movie.  His last was LE HUITEIME JOUR (THE EIGHTH DAY) in 1996.

I AM LOVE (Italy/UK 2009) **
Directed by Luca Guadagnino

The poster of I AM LOVE with the star and producer Tilda Swinton coloured pink and standing out in the poster family portrait also with the pink words I AM LOVE describes to a ‘t’ what to expect from this art film.