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

Adenilson and Zeca are employees of Vila Formosa, the São Paulo cemetery that most bury Covid-19 victims in Brazil. After the chief is infected, the pair faces the huge task of digging endless graves and avoiding contagion in the Brazilian city with more victims of the Coronavirus. They will cling more to God than to protective measures.
'The Fablemans' is Spielberg's most personal work to date, the cast delights audiences at the TIFF premiere.
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'Playing with Fire' was clearly a film made for a kid or tween-ish audience. Keeping that in mind, I thought 'Playing with Fire' was alright, though it did portray some harmful stereotypes.
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Slip on your favorite dungarees and spend the day on the east coast of New Zealand before the 90s.
What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.