Toronto: The MeToo reckoning comes to the big screen
. The latter made its world premiere at Telluride and is being sold by 3311 Productions in Toronto. The former, which will likely become one of the most controversial of the Toronto fest given that its protagonist — Carice van Houten — fantasizes about sex with a brutal rapist, will make its world premiere Saturday.
"I think the film is exploring the question: Are we intellectual, civilized beings or are we also still animals?" Reijn says. "I think one of the most important assignments that we should give ourselves as creators is that we should all cherish nuance and dare to go to uncomfortable places." producer James Schamus began shopping the script at Toronto last year and quickly assembled deep-pocketed investors to make the film.
"All of us who have worked in this system have a lot to answer for," says Schamus, who ran Focus Features when Weinstein was in charge of his titular company. "And Kitty provides, with the help of Julia Garner’s universally praised performance, an occasion to begin those necessary conversations — by centering on those who for all too long were ignored and unseen.
But will top acquisition executives — nearly all of them men and many who worked under Weinstein at some point in their careers — have an appetite for fare that hits close to home? Netflix already has acquired
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