Ethan Vestby

[TIFF Review] Force Majeure

Near the very beginning of Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure, we come to understand the impetus for a family’s vacation when the wife, Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli), ex...

[TIFF Review] Horse Money

Often, when defining the auteur, one of the first things we go to is the consistency of location -- that through a certain booming metropolis, quaint small town...

[Fantasia Review] The Zero Theorem

The comparisons between The Zero Theorem and Terry Gilliam’s most-beloved film are inevitable: dystopian sci-fi, a looming corporation, one lone man navigating ...

[Fantasia Review] Open Windows

One of the many films to open with the misdirection of a movie within a movie, Open Windows actually earns it, even if the effort it expends in doing so makes n...

[Review] Dormant Beauty

The newest film by Marco Bellocchio, one of Italy’s most revered directors, Dormant Beauty, initially seems like a risky proposition, being that it intends to m...

Ethan Vestby

Canadian, for better or worse.