TIFF 2024: Young Werther, Addition, My Father’s Daughter | Festivals & Awards

Adapting Goethe’s Sturm und Drang classic “The Sorrows of Young Werther” into a buoyant, bright Canadian rom-com feels like a horrendously awful idea on paper. And, for the first few minutes of José Lourenço’s film, I was convinced it was. This is an aggressively quirky movie that feels buried in twee in its opening scenes. … Read more