I didn’t have the highest expectations for Citizen Duane (tiff | imdb); while I thought it interesting enough on my first scan through the book, it was one that Nellie wanted more than I. The few mediocre reviews I’ve read in the past couple of days didn’t give me much hope either, but it turned out a little better than I was expecting. Early in the film the acting felt quite…wooden, I guess. Forced, maybe is a better word; there were a few silences where presumably laughs were meant to be. It got better, and the humour picked up nicely, but it never really got very high off the ground.

In the end it was an ok movie with ok acting, nothing special. Thankfully, though, it provided a bit of levity in between German possession and Irish terrorism. And Vietnamese P.O.W. camp. And heroin addiction. And suicide. Yeesh.

Also: we started off the evening with a short film called True Love (tiff). Cute. Funny. Got a laugh out of an abandoned, parentless child, which always works.
[tags]tiff, toronto international film festival, citizen duane, true love[/tags]