Thursday, March 28, 2024
ADVT 
Festivals

DARPAN's Must Watch at VIFF 2016: Manchester by the Sea

Vancouver International Film Festival29 Sep '16 to 14 Oct '16 @ 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
  • DARPAN's Must Watch at VIFF 2016: Manchester by the Sea
One of the highlights of this year’s Sundance, and sure to make waves come Oscar season, Manchester by the Sea is an emotional epic that navigates the choppy waters of day-to-day existence. Through the perspective of Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck in a career-best performance), the film examines a family both bound and separated by past tragedy. 
 
When his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler) passes away, Lee returns to his hometown in Massachusetts with the hope of sorting out the deceased’s affairs. He becomes the guardian of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges), now an orphan. Over the course of a few weeks Lee plans the funeral, sorts out the estate and looks for someone to foster Patrick; all the while he faces judgment from locals who haven’t forgotten why he flew the coop so many years earlier.
 
Director Kenneth Lonergan, in his follow up to 2011’s Margaret, folds transformative observations into the texture of everyday life. You can sense the calamitous history of this North Shore town in the rain, the cold gusts of wind and the overcast skies. This film stands with the greatest American movie dramas; to watch it in all of its tragedy, complexity and humour is to experience life-altering cinema.
 
 
For more information and tickets, visit viff.org
Event Location Vancouver International Film Festival
Address: 1181 Seymour St
Post Code: V6B 2R1

MORE Festivals ARTICLES

DARPAN's Must Watch at VIFF 2016: Window Horses (The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming)

1181 Seymour St, | 29/09/2016 - 14/10/2016

Ann Marie Fleming’s Window Horses is a beautifully narrated and colourfully animated story of a young girl’s journey toward self-discovery.

DARPAN's Must Watch at VIFF 2016: Window Horses (The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming)

29/09/2016 - 14/10/2016

DARPAN's Must Watch at VIFF 2016: The Birth of a Nation

DARPAN's Must Watch at VIFF 2016: The Birth of a Nation

1181 Seymour St | 29/09/2016 - 14/10/2016

An extraordinarily powerful historical drama chronicling the slave rebellion in the southern US led by Nat Turner in 1831. 

DARPAN's Must Watch at VIFF 2016: The Birth of a Nation

29/09/2016 - 14/10/2016

DARPAN's Must Watch at VIFF 2016: Twilight Over Burma

1181 Seymour St, | 29/09/2016 - 14/10/2016

In that newly liberalized nation it seems that some art is still too powerful, too persuasive, too effective to be tolerated.

DARPAN's Must Watch at VIFF 2016: Twilight Over Burma

29/09/2016 - 14/10/2016

DARPAN's Must Watch at VIFF 2016: The Bacchus Lady

DARPAN's Must Watch at VIFF 2016: The Bacchus Lady

1181 Seymour St | 29/09/2016 - 14/10/2016

Soyoung (Youn Yuhjung) is one strong woman: over the years she’s faced hardship, heartbreak and humiliation, and still she soldiers on, facing life with as much honour as she can. 

DARPAN's Must Watch at VIFF 2016: The Bacchus Lady

29/09/2016 - 14/10/2016

DARPAN's Must Watch at VIFF 2016: Personal Shopper featuring Kristen Stewart

1181 Seymour St, | 29/09/2016 - 14/10/2016

Re-teaming after 2014’s Clouds of Sils Maria, director Olivier Assayas and star Kristen Ste...

DARPAN's Must Watch at VIFF 2016: Personal Shopper featuring Kristen Stewart

29/09/2016 - 14/10/2016

20th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl

20th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl

1895 Venables St | 17/11/2016 - 20/11/2016

Iconic four-day visual arts festival marks momentous milestone by opening doors on Canada’s most densely populated artistic community

20th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl

17/11/2016 - 20/11/2016
PrevNext