Celebrated Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier’s latest, The Worst Person in the World, is an absolute knock-out, a dazzling, startling observant, gloriously poignant, always provocative, beguiling and engaging romantic drama, a film for the ages that elicits boundless empathy for its three main protagonists, a film that is both laugh-out loud funny and heartbreaking all at the same time, and for VanRamblings flat out the best film we’ve seen this year!
Remaining VIFF 2021 screenings | Book your tickets now! | In-person only
Saturday, October 9th, 2021 at 9pm, Rio Theatre
Monday, October 11th, 2021 at 6:15pm, Vancouver Playhouse
The question of the hour is: what do I watch on VIFF Connect in the comfort of my home, what are the recommendable films that are screening and available at VIFF 2021? The answer to the question is: there are no bad films at VIFF, no film unworthy of your time — choosing which films to watch is a purely subjective exercise. No one film is everyone’s cup of tea, that’s just the way it is.
The above said, VanRamblings is prepared to point you in the direction of two friends & two local media outlets providing reliable VIFF 2021 reviews …
Stir is a Vancouver-based online, digital magazine that puts arts and culture at centre stage, not just in our city, but across the region. A platform for independent arts journalism, as was the case the past couple of years, the good folks at Stir are providing compelling reviews of VIFF 2021’s best films (click on the preceding link).
The editor of The Georgia Straight, Charlie Smith — without a doubt, Charlie is the hardest working, most prolific and most respected independent journalist in town — in addition to his myriad other duties, in 2021 has taken on the task of watching a multitude of VIFF 2021 films (along with his compatriots, Craig Takeuchi, Steve Newton, Carlito Pablo, and Martin Dunphy), and has set about to publish what may be considered as the ‘definitive guide’ to what’s worth watching through VIFF Connect, at our beloved film festival by the sea, the glorious, edifying, window-on-the-world Vancouver International Film Festival.
Here’s where you’ll find The Straight’s VIFF 2021 reviews: just click here.
In addition to Stir &The Georgia Straight, three VanRamblings friends: Joseph Jones, Ian Merkel and David House are writing reviews of VIFF 2021 films …
Click here for Joseph Jones’ VIFF 2021 reviews on Twitter (more added daily).
Click here for Ian Merkel and David House’s VIFF 2021 reviews.
And migawd, if you’re looking for first-rate cinema to watch on VIFF Connect, you simply can’t go wrong when choosing any one of several VIFF ‘shorts’ programmes on this year’s schedule. The International Shorts programmes — lovingly curated by Sandy Gow, an eminence gris at the Vancouver International Film Festival — are always a glorious, hopeful and heartrending delight & definitely not-to-be-missed.