With Looper set to open Canada’s premier film festival, we got word yesterday that Paul Andrew Williams‘ dramedy Song For Marion will be taking the closing slot of the Toronto International Film Festival. We’ve got our first look at the film today, which follows “a curmudgeonly retiree” (Terence Stamp) who takes his ill-stricken wife’s (Vanessa Redgrave) place in their local choir for seniors. Described as a “hilarious and heartwarming comedy-drama” one can see the stills above and below, also featuring Gemma Arterton and Christopher Eccleston.
We’ve also got a batch of stills of the next feature from A Time for Drunken Horses director Bahman Ghobadi, Rhino Season. In what looks to be a visual stunning drama, Monica Bellucci leads the “haunting love story that spans three decades” which follows “a Kurdish poet and family friend of Ghobadi’s who was unjustly incarcerated during Iran’s Islamic Revolution.” Check out those stills below, also featuring Behrouz Vossoughi and Yilmaz Erdogan.
TIFF kicks off on September 6th.