TIFF ‘22 Coverage: ‘The Fablemans’
'The Fablemans' is Spielberg's most personal work to date, the cast delights audiences at the TIFF premiere.

Kaylan is wild. Wild about anything that walks. Be it male, female or otherwise. Her boyfriend is hopelessly, helplessly committed to infidel Kaylan, even when faced with her twin sis who attempts to seduce him. Needless to say, a rather odd love triangle develops. Between a man in love, and a sister in love...between the faithful, and the faithless. Between three hearts.
'The Fablemans' is Spielberg's most personal work to date, the cast delights audiences at the TIFF premiere.
The “gay best friend”, an age-old trope, has been done in countless films and television series. Ranging from one-note (Sex and the City's Stanford and Mario) to nuanced (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Tituss), the gay best friend exists to support and advise the main protagonist, with their conflicts swept to the side.
The second film takes us on Peter's journey to be understood.
“To be universal, you have to get specific”: while the film does not attempt to provoke discussions about queerness or race, those watching closely may find something resonant in Sorrentino’s love letter to the Naples of his youth.
Lindsay Lohan makes a big film comeback in this amazing holiday comedy of the year.