Toronto (Canada), September 13 (EFE).- The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, in English) presents this Tuesday two of the most anticipated titles of the current edition of the exhibition, “The Greatest Beer Run Ever and “Moving On”, the latter with a performance by Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.

This Tuesday also sees the world premiere at the Canadian show, one of the largest in the world, of Spanish director Carlos Vermut’s latest film, “Manticore”, starring Nacho Sánchez and Zoe Stein.

Vermouth pointed out that the film’s story, about a successful video game designer who hides a terrible secret, is “that of a real monster” and that “Manticore” is a film “about love and monsters”. in modern life.

After its appearance at TIFF, “Mantícora” will be screened at the next Fantastic Film Festival in Sitges (Spain), which will be held from October 6 to 16.

On the other hand, the Toronto festival has scheduled for this Tuesday two of the most anticipated films of the show, judging by the pools of critics.

ETERNAL FOUNDATION

“Moving On” is the comedy that offered a new opportunity to bring together the inexhaustible Fonda and Tomlin, two actresses who know each other well.

The two have been great friends for over 40 years and have worked together in films such as “9 to 5” (1980) or the Netflix series “Grace and Frankie”.

In “Moving On,” writer-director Paul Weitz (“About a Boy,” 2002), places Fonda and Tomlin in familiar territory: two friends who, after years of disconnection, reunite when a mutual friend dies. . This death will allow the two friends to mount a revenge against the widower of the deceased.

The world premiere of “Moving On” coincided with the recent announcement that Fonda, 84, has cancer.

Fonda will not attend the premiere of “Moving On” in Toronto, although 83-year-old Tomlin will, who described his friend as fiery and “indomitable”.

According to Tomlin, Fonda told her not to worry because her cancer “is one of the most treatable cancers you can have,” and that she considered herself very lucky in that regard.

BEERS AND VIETNAM

With the other big premiere this Tuesday, “The Greatest Beer Run Ever”, its director, the American Peter Farrelly, looks back on a festival that has brought him luck in the past.

In 2018, Farrelly won the TIFF Audience Award with “Green Book,” the Toronto show’s most democratic award and given by the audience who attends the screenings.

Winning support from Toronto, Farrelly won two Oscars, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, for ‘Green Book,’ and Mahershala Ali won the Best Supporting Actress statuette for her performance in the feature. .

The action comedy “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” is Farrelly’s first film since “Green Book” and was cast by actors Zac Efron, Russell Crowe and Bill Murray.

With a storyline that Farrelly also took part in, “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” is set in 1967, in the midst of the Vietnam War, when a sailor, John “Chickie” Donahue (Efron), decides to mount a mission to deliver beers to soldiers Americans on the battlefield.

Based on real events, Farrelly said what he primarily meant with this story was that Vietnam was “a horrible war, but not because of the soldiers.”

“They thought they were patriots and they thought they were saving the world, but they weren’t. It was the fault of really bad leadership. That’s the message of the movie,” Farrelly explained. in an interview with Deadline.

Another of the films that will premiere this Tuesday in Toronto is “My Imaginary Country”, the latest production from Chilean documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán.

On this occasion, Guzmán, who is a regular at TIFF and author of the documentary series “The Battle of Chile”, enters into “the social outbreak” with his camera, the massive demonstrations that took place in Chile between October 2019 and March 2020.

Julius Caesar Rivas